Learning Center, English Edition
E-mail to a friend
Add to Favorites
AuthorsAesopAndersen Hans Christian   Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe)Austen, JaneCarus Titus Lucretius   Doyle, Arthur Ignatius ConanDumas, AlexandreEpictetus   EpicurusFa-Hien (Fa-hsien) Grimm Jacob and Wilhelm (Brothers Grimm)   Kafka Franz Kant ImmanuelMarcus Aurelius   Perrault CharlesSchopenhauer ArthurSeneca Lucius Annaeus   Surendranath DasguptaVerne, JulesLibrary
 
Home / Library / Authors / Aesop

The Kingdom of the Lion

By AESOP

THE BEASTS of the field and forest had a Lion as their king.

He was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be.

During his reign he made a royal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and beasts, and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the Hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity.

The Hare said, "Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong."

And after the Hare said this, he ran for his life.
show options »   

Search inside:



  LATEST AUTHORS HEADLINES:
  ALSO IN AUTHORS:
  1. The Cock and the Jewel
  2. The Boy Hunting Locusts
  3. The Father and His Sons
  4. The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller
  5. The Lion and the Mouse
  6. The Ass and the Grasshopper
  7. The Bat and the Weasels
  8. The Wolf and the Lamb
  9. The Snail and the Rose-Tree
  10. The Psyche
  More articles in: