STUDY XIÎ, 423 



after all his painful fervices, turn his head toward 

 her, and fay : (t Solitary bird, behold in what 

 " manner Man rewards his fervants !" 



Nature has diffufed thefe diffractions, and thefe 

 confonances of fortune, over volatile beings, in 

 order that our foul, fufceptible as it is of every 

 wo, finding every where occafions of extending 

 that fufceptibility, might every where be enabled 

 to alleviate the preffure. She has rendered infen- 

 fible bodies themfelves capable of thefe communi- 

 cations. She prefents to us, frequently, in the 

 midft of fcenes which pain the eye, other fcenes 

 which delight the ear, and foothe the mind with 

 interefting recollections. It is thus that from the 

 bofom of forefts, fhe tranfports us to the brink of 

 the waters, by the ruftling of the afpins and of the 

 poplars. At other times fhe conveys to us, when 

 we are by the fide of the brook, the noife of the 

 Sea, and the manœuvres of navigation, in the 

 murmuring of reeds (haken by the wind. When 

 (he can no longer feduce our reafon by foreign 

 imagery, fhe lulls it to reft by the charm of fenti- 

 ment : (lie calls forth from the bofom of the fo- 

 refts, of the meadows, and of the valleys, founds 

 ineffable, which excite in us pleating reveries, and 

 plunge us into profound fleep. 



Of 



