A _Hare_ and a _Sparrow_.
A Sparrow happen’d to take a Bush just as an Eagle made a Stoop at a
_Hare_; and when she had got her in the Foot, Poor _Wat_ cry’d out
for Help. Well, (says the Sparrow) and why don’t ye Run for’t now?
I thought your Footmanship would have Sav’d ye. In this very Moment
comes a Hawk and whips away the _Sparrow_; which gave the Dying _Hare_
this Consolation in her last Distress, that she saw her Insolent Enemy
overtaken with a just Vengeance, and that the _Hard-Hearted Creature_
that had no _Pity_ for _another_, could obtain none for her self neither,
when she stood most in _need_ on’t.
The MORAL.
_’Tis with Men and Governments, as it is with Birds and Beasts. The
Weaker are a Prey to the stronger, and so one under another, through the
whole Scale of the Creation. We ought therefore to have a Fellow-Feeling
of one anothers Afflictions; for no Body knows whose turn may be next._