Tara

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1	A Stag overpowered by heat came to a spring to drink.
2	Seeing his own shadow reflected in the water, he said:
3	Oh mighty form! Crowned be thee by noble horns, yet cursed by heaven with slender limbs.
4	Alas! If but the gods had been kinder in design, that we might have had limbs to match our crown.
5	Whereupon a Lion also at the side of the spring to drink.
6	The Stag immediately took to flight before the Lion did see him.
7	With all his strength and agility the Stag did quickly have a distance from his foe.
8	But entering a wood his antlers became entangled by his horns.
9	Trapped and easy pray for the chasing Lion, the Stag said thus:
10	Woe is me! How I have deceived myself! These feet which would have saved me I despised,
11	And I gloried in these antlers which have proved my destruction.