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red-breaſt an inviolate reſpect to the rights of hoſpitality:
one alone,
The red-breaſt, ſacred to the houſhold-gods,
Wiſely regardful of the embroiling ſky,
In joyleſs fields, and thorny thickets, leaves
His ſhivering mates, and pays to truſted man
His annual viſit.
Long after the perverſe practice of devouring thebfleſh of animals had grown into inveterate habit among the people, there exiſted
ſtill,
