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Proverb

The lion had need of the mouse.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.

Fable

The Lion in Love

Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.

Fable

The Lioness

Public-domain English source text from George Fyler Townsend’s translation of the ancient Aesopic fable tradition.

Poetry

The Little Black Boy

A black child repeats his mother's teaching that bodies are only clouds shading the soul while it learns to bear the beams of God's love, and imagines shading an English boy in heaven until that boy loves him.

Proverb

The longest day will have an end.

A main proverb preserved in Walter K. Kelly's British-centered 1859 comparative collection. The exact oral origin is not asserted, and the historical saying is not presented as present-day fact or advice.