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EPIGRAM LVI.
[Hatch'd all from alien eggs, along the meads]
QUALIS AB INCEPTO.
Hatch'd all from alien eggs, along the meads,
The jocund hen a troop of ducklings leads:
But when the dangers of the pool they brave,
And plunge intrepid in the dreadful wave;
High beats her fluttering heart; she calls; she cries;
And restless round and round the margin flies.—
Alike unalter'd, nature's powers occur;
Instinct in them, parental care in her:
The offspring's deed proclaims a race unknown;
A mother's feelings prove the brood her own.
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