A POOL was once congeal’d with frost;
The frogs, in its deep waters lost,
No longer dared to croak or spring;
But promised, being half asleep,
If suffer’d to the air to creep,
As very nightingales to sing.
A thaw dissolved the ice so strong,—
They proudly steer’d themselves along,
When landed, squatted on the shore,
And croak’d as loudly as before.
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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