Oysters, and All About Them - Being a Complete History of the Titular Subject, Exhaustive on All Points of Necessart and Curious Information From the Earliest Writers to Those of the Present Time, With Numerous Additions, Facts, and Notes #233818

"Happy is he who lives to understand,<br><br>Not human nature only, but explores<br><br>All natures, - to the end that he may find<br><br>The law that governs each; and where begins<br><br>The union, the partition where, that makes<br><br>Kind and degree, among all visible beings;<br><br>The constitutions, powers, and faculties<br><br>Which they inherit - cannot step beyond -<br><br>And cannot fall beneath; that do assign<br><br>To every class its station and its office,<br><br>Through all the mighty commonwealth of things;<br><br>Up from the creeping plant to sovereign Man.<br><br>Such converse, if directed by a meek,<br><br>Sincere, and humble spirit, teaches love:<br><br>For knowledge is delight; and such delight<br><br>Breeds love: yet, suited as it rather is<br><br>To thought and to the climbing intellect,<br><br>It teaches less to love, than to adore;<br><br>If that be not indeed the highest love!"