Edwin Arnold Quote

How lizard fed on ant, and snake on him, And kite on both; and how the fish-hawk robbed The fish-tiger of that which it had seized; The shrike chasing the bulbul, which did chase The jeweled butterflies; till everywhere Each slew a slayer and in turn was slain, Life living upon death.

Edwin Arnold's Poetical Works (Volume 1), The Light of Asia, Book the First (p. 21)