Classic Poem

That the fierce Pard doth at a beck
Yield to the Yoke his spotted neck,
And the untoward Tyger bear
The whip with a submissive fear;
That Stags do foam with golden bits
And the rough Lybic bear submits
Unto the Ring; that a wild Boar
Like that which Caledon of Yore
Brought forth, doth mildly put his head
In purple Muzzles to be lead:
That the vast strong-limb'd Buffles draw
The Brittish Chariots with taught awe.
And the Elephant with Courtship falls
To any dance the Negro calls:
Would not you think such sports as those
Were shews which the Gods did expose;
But these are nothing, when we see
That Hares by Lions hunted be, &c.