Let us a plainer, steadier theme pursue— 20 Mark the grim savage scoop his light canoe; Mark the dark rook, on pendent branches hung, With anxious fondness feed her cawing young.— Mark the fell leopard through the desert prowl, Fish prey on fish, and fowl regale on fowl;— 25 How Lybian tigers’ chawdrons[126] love assails, And warms, ’midst seas of ice, the melting whales;—[127] Cools the crimpt cod, fierce pangs to perch imparts, Shrinks shrivell’d shrimps, but opens oysters’ hearts;—[128] Then say, how all these things together tend 30 To one great truth, prime object, and good end? First—to each living thing, whate’er its kind, Some lot, some part, some station is assign’d. The feather’d race with pinions skim the _air_—[129] Not so the mackerel, and still less the bear;[130] 35 _This_ roams the _wood_, carniv’rous for his prey![131] _That_ with soft roe pursues his _watery_ way:[132] _This_, slain by hunters, yields his shaggy hide;[133] _That_, caught by fishers, is on _Sundays_ cried.—[134] But each contented with his humble sphere, 40 Moves unambitious through the circling year; Nor e’er forgets the fortune of his race, Nor pines to quit, or strives to change his place. Ah! who has seen the mailed lobster rise, Clap her broad wings, and soaring claim the skies?[135] 45 When did the owl, descending from her bow’r, Crop, ’midst the fleecy flocks, the tender flow’r; Or the young heifer plunge, with pliant limb, In the salt wave,[136] and fish-like strive to swim? The same with plants[137]—potatoes ’tatoes breed—[138] 50 Uncostly cabbage springs from cabbage seed; Lettuce to lettuce, leeks to leeks succeed; Nor e’er did cooling cucumbers presume To flow’r like myrtle, or like violets bloom. —Man, only,—rash, refined, presumptuous man, 55 Starts from his rank, and mars creation’s plan. Born the free heir of nature’s wide domain, To art’s strict limits bounds his narrow’d reign; Resigns his native rights for meaner things, For faith and fetters—laws, and priests, and kings. 60 (_To be continued._) We are sorry to be obliged to break off here. The remainder of this admirable and instructive Poem is in the press, and will be continued the first opportunity. THE EDITOR. [The following is the commencement of Knight’s poem:—