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You often hear a sweet seductive call: / If wise, you haste towards it not at all; -- / And, if you heed my apologue, / You act like John de Nivelle's dog.[1]
[1]: _John de Nivelle's dog_. -- A dog which, according to the French proverb, ran away when his master called him. -- Translator.