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The Lion Beaten By The Man.

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[1]      A picture once was shown,      In which one man, alone,      Upon the ground had thrown      A lion fully grown.      Much gloried at the sight the rabble.      A lion thus rebuked their babble: -      'That you have got the victory there,      There is no contradiction.      But, gentles, possibly you are      The dupes of easy fiction:      Had we the art of making pictures,      Perhaps our champion had beat yours!'

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