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Aesop's Fables: Townsend (1867)311. The Rose and the Amaranth (Perry 369) AN AMARANTH planted in a garden near a Rose-Tree, thus addressed it: 'What a lovely flower is the Rose, a favorite alike with Gods and with men. I envy you your beauty and your perfume.' The Rose replied, 'I indeed, dear Amaranth, flourish but for a brief season! If no cruel hand pluck me from my stem, yet I must perish by an early doom. But thou art immortal and dost never fade, but bloomest for ever in renewed youth.' George Fyler Townsend's translation of the fables, first published in 1867, is in the public domain and can be found at many websites, including Project Gutenberg. Illustrations come from: Aesop's Fables, by George Fyler Townsend, with illustrations by Harrison Weir, 1867, at Google Books. |
