294 ^-^^^ Poets Beasts. 



the punishment of Nebuchadnezzar — 



" That great proud King of Babylon, 



That would compel all nations to adore, 



And him as only God to call upon, 



Till, through celestial doom thrown out of door, 



Into an ox he was transformed of yore " — 



Brahma's white bull and Europa's —  



" Now lows the milk-white bull on Afric's strand, 

 And crops with dancing head the daisied land ; 

 With rosy wreaths Europa's hand adorns 

 His fringed forehead, and his pearly horns ; 

 Light on his back the sportive damsel bounds. 

 And pleased he moves along the flowery grounds, 

 Bears with slow step his beauteous prize aloof. 

 Dips in the lucid flood his ivory hoof; 

 Then wets his velvet knees, and wading laves 

 Ilis silky sides amid the dimpling waves " — 



the bulls of heraldry, notably the " dun " the bulls of 

 Percy — 



" Lord Westmoreland his ancient raised. 

 The Dun Bull he raised on high " — 



the cows of popular superstition — white, black, and " shelly 

 coated," dappled, and sand-red, and brindled — and many 

 other creatures of story and myth, from Taurus of the zodiac 

 to the cow of Dunsmore Heath, of which the horn, albeit 

 an elephant's tusk is shown to this day, in proof of the 

 great Earl's great achievement. 



