On sounds for meanings diverse, one for each!

Fond fable that one knew all names, and then

Distributed them to dumb fellow men!

Before common use, by what means learned he

Articulate speech had utility?

How urge men as good as deaf—so, the rule,

Sulky—for no clear gain, to go to school,

When Nature had already, by design

For them, through combining powers, to reign,

Giv’n versatility of voice and tongue