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sent to serve us, we in our pride, tliinkiiig ourselves sur- 

 rounded by the pursuivants of the sky, can yet only in- 

 vest them with majesty by giving them the calm of the 

 bird's motion, and shade of the bird's plume: — and after 

 all, it is well for us, if, when even for God's best mercies, 

 and in His temples marble-built, we think that, '' with 

 angels and archangels, and all the company of Heaven, 

 we laud and mao^nifv His o^lorious name" — well for us, 

 if our attempt be not only an insult, and His ears open 

 rather to the inarticulate and unintended praise, of " the 

 Swallow, twittering from her straw-built shed." 



