Or victor’s, grappling sea fish for its life.
Even, it is believed, some kinds that ride
The air have means by varied cries to guide
Men’s acts. Rough throated rooks and crows are said
By secular sign-reading to have bred
An instinct when winds, floods, rain they would have,
To warn of weather coming that they crave.
Thus, ears attest the ways that have been found
By lower races to converse by sound,
Strange if Man, Nature’s first-born, built not speech