The bounding fteed you pompously beftride, 35 40 44 Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch, warm'd a bear. While Man exclaims, "See all things for my ufe !" " See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goofe : And just as short of reafon He must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all. VARIATIONS. After 46. in the former Editions, What care to tend, to lodge, to cram, to treat him! NOTES. VER. 45.-See all things | faid, The Lord hath made for my ufe!] On the con- all things for HIMSELF. trary, the wife man hath | Prov. xvi, 4< 50 Grant that the pow'rful ftill the weak controul; Be Man the Wit and Tyrant of the whole : Nature that Tyrant checks; He only knows, And helps another creature's wants and woes. Say, will the falcon, ftooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, fpare the dove? Admires the jay the infect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela fings? Man cares for all: to birds he gives his woods, To beafts his paftures, and to fish his floods; For fome his Int'reft prompts him to provide, 55 For more his pleasure, yet for more his pride: 60 All feed on one vain Patron, and enjoy Th' extenfive bleffing of his luxury. He faves from famine, from the savage faves; 65 Nay, feafts the animal he dooms his feast, NOTES. VER. 50. Be Man the Wit and Tyrant of the whole: Alluding to the witty fyftem of that Philofopher, which made Animals mere Machines, in fenfible of pain or pleasure : and fo encouraged Men in the exercife of that Tyranny over their fellow-creatures, confequent on fuch a principle. Which fees no more the ftroke, or feels the pain, Thou too must perish, when thy feast is o'er ! 70 75 II. Whether with Reafon, or with Inftinct bleft, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which fuits them beft; To blifs alike by that direction tend, And find the means proportion'd to their end. After 84. in the MS. While Man, with opening views of various ways NOTES. 81 VER. 68. Than favour'd ancients, and many of the Man, &c.] Several of the Orientals fince, efteemed Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for fervice, or but serves when prest, Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit ; 85 90 95 Who taught the nations of the field and wood To fhun their poison, and to chufe their food? 100 Prescient, the tides or tempefts to withstand, Build on the wave, or arch beneath the fand? Who made the spider parallels design, Sure as De-moivre, without rule or line? Who bid the ftork, Columbus-like, explore 105 Heav'ns not his own, and worlds unknown before? NOTES. thofe who were ftruck by lightning as facred perfons, and the particular favourites of Heaven. P. 1 ? 110 Who calls the council, ftates the certain day, A longer care Man's helpless kind demands; That longer care contracts more lasting bands: 120 126 130 |