Sampul The Wolf and the Lamb

That innocence is not a shield, A story teaches, not the longest. The strongest reasons always yield To reasons of the strongest.

Bahwa kepolosan bukanlah sebuah pelindung, sebuah kisah mengajarkan, bukan yang terpanjang. Alasan terkuat selalu menyerah pada alasan dari yang paling kuat.

A lamb her thirst was slaking, Once, at a mountain rill. A hungry wolf was taking His hunt for sheep to kill, When, spying on the streamlet's brink This sheep of tender age, He howl'd in tones of rage, 'How dare you roil my drink? Your impudence I shall chastise!'

Seekor anak domba sedang melepas dahaga, suatu ketika, di anak sungai pegunungan. Seekor serigala yang lapar sedang berburu domba untuk dibunuh, Ketika, mengintai di tepi anak sungai makhluk lembut berusia muda ini, ia melolong dengan nada penuh amarah, 'Beraninya kau mengeruhkan air minumku! Kelancanganmu akan kuhukum!'

'Let not your majesty,' the lamb replies, 'Decide in haste or passion! For sure 'tis difficult to think In what respect or fashion My drinking here could roil your drink, Since on the stream your majesty now faces I'm lower down, full twenty paces.'

'Janganlah paduka,' jawab si anak domba, 'memutuskan dengan tergesa atau amarah! Sebab sungguh sulit dipahami dalam hal apa atau cara bagaimana air minumku di sini bisa mengeruhkan air minum paduka, sebab pada aliran yang paduka hadapi sekarang aku berada lebih rendah, sejauh dua puluh langkah.'

'You roil it,' said the wolf; 'and, more, I know You cursed and slander'd me a year ago.' 'O no! how could I such a thing have done! A lamb that has not seen a year, A suckling of its mother dear?' 'Your brother then.' 'But brother I have none.'

'Kau mengeruhkannya,' kata serigala; 'dan, lagipula, aku tahu kau telah mengutuk dan memfitnahku setahun yang lalu.' 'Oh tidak! bagaimana mungkin aku melakukan hal semacam itu! Seekor anak domba yang bahkan belum genap setahun, seekor anak yang masih menyusu pada induknya yang tercinta?' 'Kalau begitu saudaramu.' 'Tetapi aku tidak punya saudara.'

'Well, well, what's all the same, 'Twas some one of your name. Sheep, men, and dogs of every nation, Are wont to stab my reputation, As I have truly heard.' Without another word, He made his vengeance good— Bore off the lambkin to the wood, And there, without a jury, Judged, slew, and ate her in his fury.

'Baiklah, baiklah, semuanya sama saja, itu pasti salah satu dari kaummu. Domba, manusia, dan anjing dari segala bangsa, selalu saja mencemarkan reputasiku, seperti yang telah kudengar dengan sebenarnya.' Tanpa sepatah kata lagi, ia pun melampiaskan dendamnya dengan tuntas— membawa pergi anak domba itu ke hutan, dan di sana, tanpa pengadilan, menghakimi, membunuh, dan memakannya dalam amarahnya.

🧠 Cek pemahamanmu

  1. What does the wolf first accuse the lamb of doing?

    Lihat jawaban

    Jawaban: Muddying his drinking water

    The wolf howls at the lamb for daring to "roil" (muddy) his drink at the stream.

  2. How does the lamb prove the wolf's first accusation is impossible?

    Lihat jawaban

    Jawaban: She points out she is downstream from the wolf, so she cannot be dirtying his water

    The lamb explains she is drinking twenty paces below the wolf, so her drinking cannot affect his water upstream.

  3. When the water excuse fails, what does the wolf accuse the lamb of instead?

    Lihat jawaban

    Jawaban: Slandering him a year ago

    The wolf claims the lamb "cursed and slander'd" him a year ago, even though the lamb is less than a year old.

  4. What does the opening moral of the poem say about reasons and strength?

    Lihat jawaban

    Jawaban: The strongest reasons always yield to the reasons of the strongest

    The poem opens by warning that being innocent is no shield, since the powerful will always make their excuse count as the winning one.

  5. What finally happens to the lamb?

    Lihat jawaban

    Jawaban: The wolf drags her off and kills her without any real trial

    Having run out of patience for excuses, the wolf carries the lamb into the wood and, "without a jury," kills and eats her.

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