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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DOG IN THE RIVER, by GAIUS JULIUS PHAEDRUS Poet's Biography
First Line: The churl that wants another's fare
Last Line: Both shade and substance, beef and bone.
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Gluttony
First Line: The churl that wants another's fare
Last Line: Both shade and substance, beef and bone.
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Gluttony
The churl that wants another's fare
Deserves at least to lose his share.
As through the stream a Dog conveyed
A piece of meat, he spied his shade
In the clear mirror of the flood,
And thinking it was flesh and blood,
Snapped to deprive him of the treat: --
But mark the glutton's self-defeat,
Missed both another's and his own,
Both shade and substance, beef and bone.
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