With thy Sublime of Humps, the animals

Would revel in the compliment. And yet

Both beings are more swift, more strong, more mighty

In action and endurance than thyself,

And all the fierce and fair of the same kind110

With thee. Thy form is natural: 'twas only

Nature's mistaken largess to bestow

The gifts which are of others upon man.

Arn. Give me the strength then of the buffalo's foot,[cw]

When he spurns high the dust, beholding his