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RucirajātakaJātaka 275 · Volume 2, translated by W. H. D. Rouse (1895)
Public domain. W. H. D. Rouse’s translation was published in 1895. The Pali is the Mahāsaṅgīti edition published by SuttaCentral under CC0. The canonical Pali Jātaka consists of the verses only (3 verses here); the prose story around them comes from the later commentary, which the English translates in full. So the verses are shown beside the whole English story, not verse by verse.
Pali verses
“Kāyaṁ balākā rucirā,
kākanīḷasmimacchati;
Caṇḍo kāko sakhā mayhaṁ,
yassa cetaṁ kulāvakaṁ”.
“Nanu maṁ samma jānāsi,
dija sāmākabhojana;
Akatvā vacanaṁ tuyhaṁ,
passa lūnosmi āgato”.
“Punapāpajjasī samma,
sīlañhi tava tādisaṁ;
Na hi mānusakā bhogā,
subhuñjā honti pakkhinā”ti.
English Rouse 1895
[365] "Who is this pretty Crane," etc.--This story the Master told at Jetavana about some greedy Brother. The two stories are just the same as the last. And these are the verses:--
"Who is this pretty Crane, and why
Does he in my Crow's basket lie?
An angry bird, my friend the Crow!
This is his nest, I'd have you know!" "Do you not know me, friend, indeed?
Together we were used to feed!
I would not do as I was told,
So now I'm plucked, as you behold."
"You'll come to grief again, I know--
It is your nature to do so.
When people make a dish of meat
’Tis not for little birds to eat."
As before, the Bodhisatta said--"I can't live here any more," and flew away some whither.
When this discourse was ended, the Master declared the Truths and identified the Birth:--at the conclusion of the Truths, the greedy Brother attained the Fruit of the Third Path:--"The greedy Brother was the Crow, and I was the Pigeon."