How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine,
Compar'd, half-reas'ning elephant, with thine!
"Twitxt that, and Reason, what a nice barrier?
For ever sep'rate, yet for ever near!
Remembrance and Reflection how ally'd;

What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide?
And Middle natures, how they long to join,
Yet never pass th' insuperable line!
Without this just gradation, could they be
Subjected, these to those, or all to thee?
The pow'rs of all subdu'd by thee alone,
Is not thy Reason all these pow'rs in one?

VIII. See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth,

All matter quick, and bursting into birth.

Above, how high, progressive life may go!
Around, how wide! how deep extend below!
Vast chain of Being! which from God began,
Nature's æthereal, human, angel, man,
Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see,
No glass can reach, from Infinite to thee,
From thee to Nothing. On superior pow'rs
Were we to press, inferior might on ours:

êtres sont placés à leur juste distance; r inégalité produit leur dépendance.

as soumis l'un à l'autre, et tous soumis à nous, acun d'eux a ses dons; ta raison les vaut tous.

III. Vois dans l'air, dans les eaux, dans la nature entiè giter, s'échauffer, s'animer la matière, puis l'humble ciron jusqu'au vaste éléphant, puis Dieu jusqu'à toi, de toi jusqu'au néant; (10 tant que peut l'espace autour de toi s'étendre, Elever sur ta tête et sous tes pieds descendre, e l'un à l'autre bout de l'immense univers, approche, si tu peux, tous les êtres divers, eux qu'aperçoit ton œil, ceux qu'un utile verre montre dans les cieux, te grossit sur la terre, eux que n'atteignent point le verre ni tes yeux, abitants de ce globe ou citoyens des cieux,

Or in the full creation leave a void,

Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd:

From Nature's chain whatever link

you strike,

Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.

And, if each system in gradation roll
Alike essential to th' amazing Whole,
The least confusion but in one,

not all
That system only, but the Whole must fall.
Let Earth unbalanc'd from her orbit fly,
Planets and suns run lawless thro' the sky;
Let erring Angels from their spheres be hurl'd,
Being on Being wreck'd, and world on world;
Heav'n's whole foundations to their center nod,
And Nature tremble to the throne of God.

All this dread ORDER break for whom? for thee?
Vile worm!-oh Madness! Pride! Impiety!

IX. What if the foot, ordain'd the dust to tread, Or hand to toil, aspir'd to be the head? What if the head, the eye, or ear repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling mind?

orte plus loin ton œil, suis dans leur cours pompeux s ces mondes roulants subordonnés entre eux, orts essentiels d'une vaste machine;

1 s'en dérange un seul, et tout tombe en ruine. la terre un instant quitte sa région,

oleil sans appui sort de son tourbillon,

ne balance plus les sphères vagabondes; mondes affaissés s'écroulent sur les mondes; horrible chaos confond les éléments;

cieux sont ébranlés jusqu'en leurs fondements; trouble ose approcher du maître du tonnerre; pour qui? c'est pour toi, ver impur de la terre! X. Eh quoi! si chaque membre osait se révolter, 'oeil lassé de voir prétendait écouter,

a main, dédaignant le vil rang d'ouvrière, e pied, dégoûté de fouler la poussière,

Just as absurd for any part to claim
To be another, in this gen'ral frame :
Just as absurd, to mourn the tasks or pains
The great directing MIND OF ALL ordains.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul;
That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same;
Great in the earth, as in th' æthereal frame;
Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze,
Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees,
Lives thro' all Life, extends thro' all extent
Spreads undivided, operates unspent ;
Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part,
As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart;

As full, as perfect, in vile Man that mourns,
As the rapt Seraph that adores and burns :
To him no high, no low, no great, no small;
He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.