POETICAL LECTURE ON ANATOMY.
The following is the purport of a lecture on anatomy. The lecturer is represented as taking up the human skull, containing the brain and its appendages, with the nervous cords exposed to observation, and with “apostrophic eye” proceeding:—
This is the tenement of thought,
The mansion of the mind,
Whose empire, as the universe,
Is boundless undefined!
’Tis vaulted, like the evening sky
In star-wrought grace unfurl’d,
And like that very firmament,