Hey! from the wild beasts learning, what nimble leaps he gave!

As doth the strong young panther, over the rocks he scrambled;

Himself was his only teacher, and, far away from kin, alone he rambled.

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While on the shore, by the waters, his time he often spent,

He saw, among the sea-waves, live fishes, as he went;

To catch them it were easy, but yet he did not get them,

For with fire his kitchen smoked not. Daily his sorrow grew that he could not eat them.

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Oft from his rocky shelter to the forest he would roam;