Friend, seek not here (to feed the mind) Zoology's recondite feasts: Here you will find but common, kind, And unsophisticated beasts!
Yet fresh the life of farm and grange As that which o'er the ocean roams: Take for a change a narrower range— An English book for English homes!
THE BRITISH BULL-DOG
You swing the gate; and there he stands to greet you, With growl or grin, as you are strange or known: According to your merits will he treat you— An Englishman who loves and guards his own.