An elephant in days of yore

DMI number:

30208

First Line:

An elephant in days of yore

Last Line:

Envy's a sharper spur than pay

Poem Genre / Form:

Couplet and Fable

Themes:

Advice / moral precepts

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Content/Publication

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Select tales and fables with prudential maxims and other little lessons of morality in prose and verse [N67747] [ecco]

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p.1

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Page No(s):

p.9

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