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portant as agents in removing dead cells, and in their place supply- 

 ing us with the green verdure which is springing up around us on 

 every side, affording in their death, like Mondamin (Hiawatha) the 

 pabulum whence the higher vegetal life arises, which in its turn 

 ministers to the wants of herbivora, carnivora, and man. A nobler 

 theme can hardly occupy our thoughts, a higher subject can hardly 

 stimulate our labours, and we can only say with our great Lau- 

 reate : — 



" The sun, the moon, and the stars, the sea, the hills, and the plains, 

 Are not these, O soul ! the vision of Him who reigns ? 

 Tiie ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man cannot see ; 

 But if we could see and hear this vision — were it not HE." 



