And leaves the goat in all the mire,
To gratify his heart’s desire.”
THE BALD MAN AND THE FLY.
“As on his head she chanced to sit,
A man’s bald pate a gadfly bit;
He, prompt to crush the little foe,
Dealt on himself a grievous blow.
At which the fly, deriding, said:—
‘You who would strike an insect dead
For one slight sting, in wrath so strict,