The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Parnassian Spring.
The Bulls and the Lion:
A FABLE.
Recommended to the serious consideration
of
the opposers of the new Constitution.
On the Lion's old domain,
The Bulls enjoy'd the flowery plain;
To conquer oft the Lion tried.
But sorely push'd on every side,
The monarch soon was taught to yield—
The Bulls united kept the field.
With grief we read the dismal tale.
That art supplied, where strength did fail
New schemes and trickings Leo tries
'To make the sturdy Bulls his prize,
And by his jealous hints and fears,
Set all together by the ears.
His engines were not yet in vain,
Suspicion agitates their brain,
They soon grew fearful of each other.
Each scorn'd and shunn'd his faithful
brother.
Each feels his consequence—his pride;
They doubt each other—they divide,
For want of friendship's powerful stay,
The Bulls become an easy prey—
The Lion sees his conquest done,
And slays the thirteen ONE BY ONE.
WE thus (it must appear to all)
United stand—divided fall.
PAT.