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Baby's Own Aesop (1887)

33. The Peacock's Complaint (Perry 509)

The Peacock considered it wrong
That he had not the nightingale's song;
So to Juno he went,
She replied, "Be content
With thy having, and hold thy fool's tongue."

DO NOT QUARREL WITH NATURE

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