UN JOUR DIT UN AUTEUR, ETC.
Once (says an author--where I need not say)
Two travellers found an oyster in their way;
Both fierce, both hungry; the dispute grew strong,
While, scale in hand, Dame Justice pass'd along.
Before her each with clamour pleads the laws,
Explain'd the matter and would win the cause.
Dame Justice, weighing long the doubtful right,
Takes, opens, swallows it, before their sight.
The cause of strife removed so rarely well,
'There,--take' (says Justice) 'take ye each a shell.
We thrive at Westminster on fools like you:
'Twas a fat oyster--live in peace--adieu.'
Verbatim From Boileau
Alexander Pope
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Poem topics: peace, april fools, long, strong, live, hungry, matter, explain, fierce, strife, I love you, I miss you, justice, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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