Dolphins by prophetic appearance fore rage of the sea to come. There was lower members of a siren, and with the 315 The luna, bereft of its own light, reven in spite, its private injury on the she latter, as if laboring in corporeal new for the loss. To these dwellers in the brine had been assigned the middle 320 mantle. Its remaining portion held which wandered in various streams, haunts in their own land of fresher wat pike, with tyrannical compulsion and ranted necessity, imprisoned its subjec 325 geon of its belly. The barbel, from its renowned, lived with the common fish or terms. The shad accompanied the vern offered with the joys of spring the deli vor, greeting the tastes of men with 330 The small muræna, slit with many an ope the germs of fever for persons dining. copied the nature of the serpent, was the of its like trait to be the serpent's des perch, armored with javelins of spines, 1 Reading nobilitatem, with Migne. a fish with the face of a man. ged, seemingly 1-fish; but the moon, atoned regions of the portion of the igratory fish, nd had their r. There the ot from warin the dunmall size not more friendly season, and nts of its sas approach. ng, gathered e eel, which ght because dant. The hunned the had undergone a rending of its par abuses and injuries. But elsewhere united in unbroken elegance, and suf nor division. On these the magic of life to the animals of the earth. Th of prodigious size, came forward i doubled the body given by nature usury. The camel, misshapen in th its rough frame, ministered to the w a bought slave. There the forehead was seen to be armed with horns in p The bull, pawing the ground with it ing with horrible bellowings, foreto bolts of its warfare. Oxen, which re exercise of the bulls, stood gaping servile employment. The horse wa hot courage, and fought in aid of its spear with soldier. The ass offende horrid noises, like a singer of burles barbarities on music. The unicorn, 1 a virgin's bosom, met in sleep the by enemies.1 The lion murmured so 1 Migne has ab hostibus somnum mortis inc enemies the sleep of death.' A. is to the same ef 16 The Complaint of Nature [PROSE I ing in the ears of its offspring, and by a wonderful 370 natural magic aroused in them the spark of life. The she-bear gave birth through the openings of its nostrils to an ill-formed progeny; but by licking and shaping them again and again with its long, pointed tongue brought them to a better figure. The wolf 375 lurked in hiding, assuming the employment of the thief, and deserving of eminence on the airy walk of the gallows. The panther roamed through the woods in more open robbery, and preyed on a flock of sheep, not only for their coats, but also for their very bodies. 380 The tiger did violence to the republic of grazing citizens with frequent shedding of innocent blood. The wild ass threw aside the captivity of the domestic ass, and, emancipated by Nature's command, inhabited bold mountains. There the wild boar, by its 385 murderous weapon of a tusk, sold its death to the dogs for many an injury. The dog rent the winds with unsubstantial wounds, and bit the air with impatient tooth. The stag and doe, light in fleetness of foot, gained life by their running, and cheated the 390 wicked jaws of pursuing dogs. The he-goat, clothed in false wool, seemed to disgust the nostrils with a four days' stench. The ram, robed in a nobler tunic, rejoiced in a plurality of wives, and beguiled the honor of marriage. The little fox cast off the dulness of 395 the brute creation, and strove for the finer sagacity of man. The hare, seized with melancholy dread, not in sleep, but in the stupor of fear, dreamed, terrified, of the approach of dogs. The rabbit, which tempers the wrath of our cold climate by its pelt, fought off 400 the attacks of our hunger with its own flesh. The ermine, scorning to be wedded to a more humble garment, laughed or wept in a splendid marriage with lustrous color. The beaver, lest it should suffer di ublic of grazing innocent blood. vity of the dome's command, inwild boar, by its its death to the rent the winds the air with imght in fleetness and cheated the he-goat, clothed nostrils with a a nobler tunic, uiled the honor the dulness of finer sagacity holy dread, not amed, terrified, which tempers elt, fought off en flesh. The more humble marriage with uld suffer di UL certainty. But yet, as the assistanc probabilities suggested, I think that the the delight of a picture of the nature trees. For there trees were now clot tunics, now fringed with verdant fol gave birth to the sweet-scented infa now matured into a goodlier fruit. E I knew of this series of pictures by ha and probability alone, and not by t tainty, I pass it by, buried in the p But the shoes, which had taken thei soft leather, followed so closely the fo that they seemed to have been born to speak, marvelously inscribed on th which scarcely ever fell away from th there flourished, in the imagination of ate flowers. 1 Reading videntium, with B. b ΤΟ its companion flower, narcissus, and laughed with quiet murmurs. The 1 the columbine, of luxuriant aspect. of the violet, speaking of the ease o starred the arbute trees, its face full art. Here she had ordered a variety 15 which1 was a writing-surface of roy yet ignorant of the thumb of the wr the riches of the spring and its man of the earth and its stars, which the tures showed, representing the blosson 20 skill. With these blooming garments the graciousness of the spendthrift sp meadows, some showing pure white being woven by the skilful right ha PROSE II. Hæc vestium ornamenta, quamvi splendiditatis flammarent an Although these decorations of the with the glow of their own full sple 1 Reading qua, with B. and Mig |