...mortal nature, till it became as a mere shadow, and then she slept. THE COUNTRY. The meanest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common air, the sun, the skies, To him are opening paradise. Gbay. I pity the man who can glance his eye over...

...the scenery of nature : 1 The simplest note that swells the gale, The meanest flowret of the vale ; The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise.' The benevolent author of nature has so constituted the world as to make it in almost every respect...

...an interest beyond their own. The plough, the loom,the flocks and herds to him have a new value ; ' The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." The endearments of kindred and friendship have almost the charms of novelty to him, and what was little...

...all an invalid's delight, when mere existence, void ' suffering, is enjoyment. " See the wreteh, who long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length...The simplest note that swells the gale, The common air, the earth, the skies, To him are opeuing paradise.". So sang Gray, and so felt Tasso for a few...

...his earliest and most precious years, is thus introduced at last to a new heaven and a new earth:— The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." " The more we are accessible to pleasures of this kind," says Gfithe, " the greater is our happiness....

...vigor lost And live and breathe again. The meanest flowret of the vale, The simplest notes that swell the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise." Soch pleasures flow continually from the healing art ; yet none but the God to whom belongeth the issues...

...created that feeling of pleasure respecting which the poet has so beautifully sung: " See the wretch who long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigor lost And live and breathe again. The meanest flowret of the vale, The simplest notes that swell...

...earliest and most precious years, is thus introduced at last, to a new heaven, and a new earth: — ' The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...the air, the skies, To him, are opening paradise.' This captivating passage, is, at least, equally descriptive of the change accomplished by the spirit...

...therefore " understand the loving-kindness of the Lord." But to those who do observe these things, ' The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note...gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are op'ning Paradise.' If there is one natural object above all others, which for its magnificent greatness...

...time when health shall restore to him his lost comforts, and when it does so, * Heb. xii. 6, etc. -* " The common sun, the air, the skies. To him are opening paradise." The distressed man bethinks him how he may retrieve his ruined fortunes; the bereaved mourner turns...