ave no doves--not I--
Their softness is disgrace;
I love the Eagle's lightning eye,
That stares in Phaebus' face.

"I mark'd that noble thing {35}
Bound on his upward flight,
Scatter the clouds with mighty wing,
And breast the tide of light--

"And scorn'd the things that creep
Prone-visaged on the Earth;
To eat it's fruits, to play, to sleep,
The purpose of their birth.

"Such softlings take delight
In Cynthia's sickly beam--
Give me a heav'n of coal black night
Slash'd with the watch-fire gleam.

"They doat upon the lute,
The cittern and the lyre--
Such sounds mine eare do little sute,
They match not my desire.

"The trumpet-blast--let it come
In shrieks on the fitful gale,
The charger's hoof beat time to the drum,
And the clank of the rider's mail.

"Not for the heaps untold
That swell the Miser's hoard,
I claim the birthright of the bold,
The dowry of the Sword--

"Nor yet the gilded gem
That coronets the slave--
I clutch the spectre-diadem
That marshals on the brave.

"For that--be Sin and Woe--
All priests and women tell--
Be Fire and Sword--I pass not tho'
This Earth be made a Hell.

"Above the rest to shine
Is all in all to me--
It is, unto a soul like mine,
To be or not to be.

"Printed with Permission of Superiours: And are to be had of the
Printer, at his House hard by the sign of the Squirrel,
over-against the way that leadeth to the Quay."

P.S. Query, What is a "hodipeke?" Is it a "hypocrite?" and should not
"Phaebus," in the fourth verse, be "Phoebus?"

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THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.

The earliest mention of the hippopotamus is in Herodotus, who in ii. 71.
gives a detailed description of this inhabitant of the Nile. He is
stated by Porphyry to have borrowed this description from his
predecessor Hecataeus (Frag. 292. ap. _Hist. Gr. Fragm._, vol. i. ed.
Didot). Herodotus, however, had doubtless obtained his account of the
hippopotamus during his visit to Egypt. Cuvier (_Trad. de Pline_, par
Grandsagne, tom. vi. p. 444.) remarks that the description is only
accurate as to the teeth and the skin; but that it is erroneous as to
the size, the feet, the tail and mane, and the nose. He wonders,
therefore, that