Obedient drops the struggling

Worm just in the current’s mouth,

Whare the water fust begins its race.

Oh! art exquisitt! Oh! bliss extatic!—

(None but the Ishmahels hav lernt

This art, or this bliss felt.)

Down the brook’s swift thrut swims

The giddy worm, a fatal journey,

For darting, az a streak ov silvry light

From sentinal place, the