a finer sense acquires,
And Loves and Pleasures fan the rising fires.--
Thus sainted PAUL, 'O Death!' exulting cries,
'Where is thy sting? O Grave! thy victories?'

[Footnote: _Thus sainted Paul_, l. 403. The doctrine of St.
Paul teaches the resurrection of the body in an incorruptible
and glorified state, with consciousness of its previous
existence; he therefore justly exults over the sting of
death, and the victory of the grave.]

"Immortal Happiness from realms deceased
Wakes, as from sleep, unlessen'd or increased;
Calls to the wise in accents loud and clear,
Sooths with sweet tones the sympathetic ear;
Informs and fires the revivescent clay,
And lights the dawn of Life's returning day. 410

[Footnote: _And lights the dawn_, l. 410. The sum total of
the happiness of organized nature is probably increased
rather than diminished, when one large old animal dies, and
is converted into many thousand young ones; which are
produced or supported with their numerous progeny by the same
organic matter. Linneus asserts, that three of the flies,
called musca vomitoria, will consume the body of a dead
horse, as soon as a lion can; Syst. Nat.]

"So when Arabia's Bird, by age oppress'd,
Consumes delighted on his spicy nest;
A filial Phoenix from his ashes springs,
Crown'd with a star, on renovated wings;
Ascends exulting from his funeral flame,
And soars and shines, another and the same.

[Footnote: _So when Arabia's bird_, l. 411. The story of the
Phoenix rising from its own ashes with a star upon its head
seems to have been an hieroglyphic emblem of the destruction
and resuscitation of all things; see Botan. Garden, Vol. I.
Canto IV. l. 389.]

"So erst the Sage with scientific truth
In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth;
With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass
From life to life, a transmigrating mass; 420
How the same organs, which to day compose
The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose,
May with to morrow's sun new forms compile,
Frown in the Hero, in the Beauty smile.
Whence drew the enlighten'd Sage the moral plan,
That man should ever be the friend of man;
Should eye with tenderness all living forms,
His brother-emmets, and his siste