Consult The Genius Of The Place In

The Race By Vigour, Not By Vaunts, Is Won.

To Teach Vain Wits That Science Little Known, T' Admire Superior Sense, And Doubt Their Own!

Our Plenteous Streams A Various Race Supply, The Bright-eyed Perch With Fins Of Tyrian Dye, The Silver Eel, In Shining Volumes Roll'd, The Yellow Carp, In Scales Bedropp'd With Gold, Swift Trouts, Diversified With Crimson Stains, And Pikes, The Tyrants Of The Wat'ry Plains.

New, Distant Scenes Of Endless Science Rise: So Pleas'd At First, The Towring Alps We Try.

Soft Is The Strain When Zephyr Gently Blows.