THE 



GRAMMAR 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



BOOK IV. 



ON SYSTEM, OR CLASSIFICATION OF INSECTS. 



Vast chain of being ! which from GOD began, 



Natures aetherial, 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 Nature's chain whatever link you strike, 



Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. 



POPK. 



