Horrentes dumos abies pulcherrima risit, cum facerent formae iurgia magna suae, indignum referens cum istis certamen haberi, quos meritis nullus consociaret honor: nam mihi deductum surgens in nubila corpus verticis erectas tollit in astra comas, puppibus et patulis media cum sede locamur, in me suspensos explicat aura sinus; at tibi deformem quod dant spineta figuram, despectum cuncti praeteriere viri.
A very lovely pine made mockery of a prickly bramble bush in a serious dispute touching their claims to beauty. The pine said it was unfair it should have to contend with such as no title brought by merit into its own class. For my tapering trunk rises towards the clouds, and rears starward the lofty foliage of my tree-top; and when I am placed on the ships open deck in the centre, the sails unfurled by the wind hang upon me. But you'everyone passes you by with scorn, because your growth of thorns gives you an ugly appearance.
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