The Bird Wounded By An Arrow

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Title:     The Bird Wounded By An Arrow
Author: Jean de La Fontaine [More Titles by La Fontaine]

A bird, with plumed arrow shot,
In dying case deplored her lot:
"Alas!" she cried, "the anguish of the thought!
This ruin partly by myself was brought!
Hard-hearted men! from us to borrow
What wings to us the fatal arrow!
But mock us not, ye cruel race,
For you must often take our place."

_The work of half the human brothers_
_Is making arms against the others._

[The end]
Jean de La Fontaine's poem: Bird Wounded By An Arrow

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