For him that touches, I shall trounce.”
Thus rank unrighteousness and force
Seized all the prey without remorse.
[VI.] THE FROGS AND SUN.
When Esop saw, with inward grief,
The nuptials of a neighb’ring thief,
He thus his narrative begun:
Of old ’twas rumor’d that the Sun
Would take a wife: with hideous cries
The quer’lous Frogs alarm’d the skies.