Shrinks shrivell’d shrimps, but opens oysters’ hearts;—[[128]]

Then say, how all these things together tend

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To one great truth, prime object, and good end?

First—to each living thing, whate’er its kind,

Some lot, some part, some station is assign’d.

The feather’d race with pinions skim the air[[129]]

Not so the mackerel, and still less the bear;[[130]]

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This roams the wood, carniv’rous for his prey![[131]]