May.
The fallow and red-deer were gone to a lick,
With a numerous party, who thought themselves sick;
But the antelope, stag, and the Wapiti deer,
Notwithstanding the age of the latter, were there.
The Esquimaux dogs, red, white, brindled, and black,
Who, for fear of the wolves, had arrived in a pack,
Were not heard to speak in the course of the day,
And were thought by the rest "to have nothing to say."
But if they were silent, 'twas clear they could growl,
And on meeting the wolf, gave a wild dismal howl;
For although 'twas supposed they were slightly connected,
In quarrels and fights they'd been often detected;
Though 'tis true, all dislikes for this day were forbidden,
Yet mutual antipathies could not be hidden.
Noble horses of Spanish extraction there came,
The chief of whose party was terribly lame;
For it seems that in one of his frolicsome scampers,
Beneath a hot sun in the wide spreading Pampas,
By the rich purple fruit of the Cactus allured,
And feeling a thirst that could not be endured,
He approach'd it to eat, but his nose was not proof
Against the sharp thorns, so he struck with his hoof,
When they pierced his bare foot, and so now he limp'd in
With his fetlock bound up in a garter-snake's skin:
The vampire-bat, surgeon, now offered to bleed it,
In case as he thought his poor patient would need it;
And added, at least it could do him no harm
To try his specific, the juice of the palm.

From the South came the puma, American lion,
Of the old house of Leo degenerate scion.
The tapir, and also that excellent diver,
Alligator, or Cayman, from Amazon river;
And with him the Llama, whose sad trick of spitting
Was thought by the company very unfitting.
But, to shorten my tale, all the New World were there,
From the tiny shrew mouse to the fierce grisly bear;
Though it seems that the peccary was not invited,
For he as a nuisance had just been indicted.
From the Old World, the lion and tiger with glee
Would have join'd them, but dreaded the journey by sea.

Beneath some fine trees, on the beautiful green,
A knot of philosophers was to be seen
Looking gravely about, and conversing together;
Some on learning and science, and some on the weather.
Dr. Mole on geology talk'd in high strain,
And declared his researches had not been in vain,
And that many geologists would have been glad
To have found opportunit