“How did my music-piece go off?”
“So well—were not thy courage known,
Their terror had been all my own!”
[XII.] THE STAG AT THE FOUNTAIN.
Full often what you now despise
Proves better than the things you prize;
Let Esop’s narrative decide:
A Stag beheld, with conscious pride,
(As at the fountain-head he stood)
His image in the silver flood,