So off the fellow scampered, quick and light,
To gain the fox-holes of a neighboring height,—
Less happy in his stratagem than flight.
The cock laughed sweetly in his sleeve;—
’Tis doubly sweet deceiver to deceive.
ANACREONTIC.
[From the French of Menage.]
As, dancing o’er the enamelled plain,
The floweret of the virgin train,