That stretch'd unwieldy their enormous arms,

Clad with luxuriant foliage, from the trunk,

Like the old eagle, feather'd to the heel;

While every fibre, from the lowest root

To the last leaf upon the topmost twig,

Was held by common sympathy, diffusing

Through all the complex frame unconscious life.

Such was the locust with its hydra boughs,

A hundred heads on one stupendous trunk;

And such the mangrove, which, at full-moon flood,