If ever they were stowed in Noah's ark;
Perhaps not made; for all their barking train
The dog (a common species) will contain;
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And some wild curs, who from their masters ran, }
Abhorring the supremacy of man, }
In woods and caves the rebel-race began. }
O happy pair, how well have you increased!
What ills in church and state have you redressed!
With teeth untried, and rudiments of claws,