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EDUCATION. 



The swallow, as Sir Humiihrey Davy observes, cheers tlie sense of sight as much as the 

 nightingale does the sense of hearing. He is the glad prophet of the year, the 

 harbinger of its brightest season, and lives a life of free enjoyment amongst the loveliest 

 forms of nature. 



There is sometliing peculiarly beautiful in his rapid, steady, well-balanced flight, — 



" Which, ere a double pulse can beat. 

 Is here and there with motion fleet, 

 As Ariel's wing could scarce exceed ; 

 And, full of vigour as of speed. 

 Forestalls the dayspring's earliest gleam, 

 Nor fails with evening's latest beam." 



To all nations he is welcome, and by all the poets has been celebrated with fond eulogium 

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