"Onines res creatae sunt divinse sapientijK et potentire testes, divitia; felicitatis 

 hiiinatuB: — ex liaruiii usu houiias Creatoris; ex pulchritudine sapientia Domini ; 

 ex ceconoinia in conserTatione, proportione, renovatione, potentia majestatis 

 elucet. Eai-uiii itaque indagsitio ab lioininibus sibi relictis semper aestimata ; 

 a vere eruditis et sapientibus semper esoulta; male doctis et barbaris semper 

 inimica fuit." — LiNSiEus. 



" Quel que soil le principe de la vie animnle, il ne faut qu'ouvrir les yeux pour 

 voir qu'elle est le chcf-d'eeuvre de la Toute-puissance, et le but auquel se rappor- 

 tent toutes ses operations." — Buicknek, Thiorie du Sydeme Atiimal, Lejden, 

 1707. 



Tlie sylvan powers 



Obej our summons ; from their deepest dells 



The Dryads come, and throw their garlands wild 



And odorous branches at our feet ; the Nymphs 



That press with nimble step the mountain-thyme 



And purple heath-flower come not empty-handed, 



But scatter round ten thousand forms minut« 



Of velvet moss or liciien, torn from rock 



Or rifted oak or cavern deep: the Naiads too 



Quit their loved native stream, from whose smooth face 



They crop the lily, and each sedge and rush 



That drinks the rippling tide: the frozen poles. 



Where peril waits the bold adventurer's tread, 



The burning sands of Boi-neo and Cayenne, 



All, all to us unlock their secret stores 



And pay tlieir cheerful tribute. 



J. Tavi.or, Xorwich, 1818. 



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