Each moss,Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rankImportant in the plan of Him who fram’dThis scale of beings; holds a rack which, lostWould break the chain, and leave behind a gapWhich Nature’s self would rue.

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Each moss,Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rankImportant in the plan of Him who fram'dThis scale of beings; holds a rack which, lostWould break the chain, and leave behind a gapWhich Nature's self would rue.