Was a valley remote from the dwellings of man:
Well guarded with mountains, embellished with trees,
And furnish’d with rivers, that flow’d to the seas.
Here first came the Lion so gallant and strong,
Well known by his main that is shaggy and long;
The Jackall, his slave, follow’d close in his rear,
Resolv’d the good things with his master to share.
[p6] The Leopard came next—a gay sight to the eye,
—With his coat spotted over—like stars in the sky—
The Tiger his system of slaughter declin’d,