80 VALEDCCTION. 



The sweet waters of instruction, 

 The true sources of improvement. 

 Look on Nature as a volume, 

 Ever open to inspection, 

 In v^hich characters are written 

 By the hand of the Ahnighty ; 

 Reverently turn its pages. 



Listen not to those who tell thee 

 That ours is a worthless study, 

 Worthless from the very smaUness 

 Of the creatures that we study : 

 Solomon, of men the wisest. 

 Taught a very different lesson. 

 Ponderous size and giant stature 

 Are not attributes of greatness : 

 Is the whale, that ocean monarch, 

 More majestic in its instinct 

 Than the bee that makes our honey ? 



Then, again, when thy collection 

 Stretches out its fair proportions, 

 Amply filled -with cognate species, 

 Let no thoughts of money value 

 Ever haunt thy generous nature. 

 In regarding all these treasures, 

 Now so carefully collated. 

 Learn to estimate them solely 

 By their worth as sage instructors ; 

 And should bargainmakers tempt thee 



