And one day plague the world in dragon form.

So should wrong merely peep abroad to meet

Wrong's due quietus, leave our world's way safe

For honest walking."

V

Sage, once more repeat

Instruction! 'T is a sore to soothe not chafe.

Ah, Fabulist, what luck, could I contrive

To coax from thee another "Grumbling Hive"!

My friend himself wrote fables short and sweet: