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THE HUNTER'S LEAP.

Tom Headlong was a lover of the chase—We want a stronger name than that of lover—

tlis day was but a long-continued race,The only plan Tom had to get time over,

Who thought Life's movements nothing had to boast,Unless its rate was that of going post.

His conversation had no other courseThan that presented to his simple view;

Of what concerned his saddle, groom, or horse,Beyond this theme he little cared or knew :

Tell him of beauty, and hannonious sounds,

He'd show his mare, and talk about his hounds.

Oh, fam'd Pythagoras ! would but thy planOf transmigration find belief in many,

'Twould check at least some cruelty in man,To think he must become the brute, if any

Had suffered from him in its worldly station,

For then he'd fear a just retaliation.