Clay Lane

The Copy Book

A Library of History and Literature in English

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1549

The Debtor and his Pig

There are no lengths to which some people won’t go.

1550

The Dog and the Bell

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

1551

The Emperor’s New Clothes

A telling satire on fashionable thinking among the elite.

1552

The Goose with the Golden Egg

Don’t get greedy when things are going well.

1553

‘I Remember’

A poem of nostalgia tinged with regret.

1554

The Music of Silence

In Coleridge’s epic poem, the Ancient Mariner, amid the horrors of a ship of dead men, sees a sight both beautiful and surreal.