Nonne vides, qusecunque mora fluidoque calore 

 Corpora tabuerint, in parva animalia verti ? 



OVID, Metam. xv. 8G2. 



Equidem turn Naturae rerum gratias ago, cum illam non ab hac parte video, 

 quae publica est, Bed cum secretiora ejtis intravi. 



Curiosus spectator excutit singula et quaorit. Quidni quacrat ? Scit ilia ad se 

 pertinere. Quantum enim est, quod ante pcdcs jacet. 



SENECA, Nat. Quccst. praef. (adapted by 0. F. MULLER). 



'T is born with all : the love of Nature's works 



Is an ingredient in the compound man, 



Infused at the creation of the kind. . . . 



It is a flame that dies not even there 



Where nothing feeds it : neither business, crowds, 



Nor habits of luxurious city life, 



Whatever else they smother of true worth 



In human bosoms, quench it or abate. 



COWPER, The Task. 



