Led by sagacious. taste, the ruthless king- 



Of beasts, on blood and slaughter only lives; 



The tiger, formed alike to cruel meals, 



Would at the manager starve ; of milder seeds 



The generous horse to herbage and to grain 



Confines his wish — -though fabling Greece resounds 



The Thracian steeds with human-carnage wild,. 



Prompted by instinct's nevsr-erring power, 



Each creature knov/s its proper aliment ; 



But man, the inhabitant of every clime, 



With all the commoners of Nature feeds I 



Directed, bounded, by this power within, 



Their cravings are well aimed : vouptuous maot 



Is by superior faculties misled ; 



Misled from pleasure e'en in quest of joy, 



Sated with Nature's boons, what thousands seek^, 



With dishes tortured from their native taste. 



And mad variety, to spur beyond 



Its wiser will, the jaded appetite ! 



Is this for pleasure ? Learn a juster taste ; , 



Aod know, that Umperance is true luxury^ 



