To everything a fitting place, a proper honourable use;
The humblest measure of mind is bright in its humble sphere:
The glow-worm, creeping in the hedge, lighteth her evening torch,
And her far-off mate, on gossamer sail, steereth his course by that star:
But ignorance mocketh at proprieties, bringing out the glow-worm at noon;
And setteth the faults of mediocrity in the full blaze of wisdom.
Ravens croaking in darkness, and a skylark trilling to the sun,
The voice of a screech-owl from a ruin, and the blackbird's whistle in a wood,
A cushion-footed camel for the sands, and a swift rein-deer for the snows,
A naked skin for Ethiopia, and rich soft furs for the Pole: