GRAMMAR 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



BOOK IV. 



ON SYSTEM, OR CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. 



Vast chain of being ! which from God began, 



Natures setherial, human, angel, man. 



Beast, bird, fish, insect ; what no eye can see. 



No glass can reach : from infinite to thee. 



From thee to nothing ! On superior powers 



Were we to press, inferior might on ours : 



Or in the full creation leave a void. 



Where, one step broken, the great scale 's destroyed; 



From Natm-e's chain whatever linlc you strike. 



Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. 



PoPK. 



