As a bird, if it light on a sprig too slight
The feathery freight to bear,
Yet, conscious of wings, tosses fearless, and sings,
Then drops—on the buoyant air.[159]
FOOTNOTES:
[131] Système de la Nature, published under the pseudonyme of Mirabaud.
[132] Système de la Nature, Part I. chap. 1.
[133] Ibid. Part II. chap. 14.
[134] Vie de Jésus. Dedication.
[135] Revue des Deux Mondes of 15 January, 1860.