176 JUNE. 



that many have vanished from our path, but 

 they have slid away so quietly, and their places 

 have been occupied by so many fragrant and 

 beautiful successors, that we have scarcely been 

 sensible of their departure. Every thing is 

 full of life, greenness, and vigour. Families of 

 young birds are abroad, and give their parents 

 a busy life of it, till they can peck for them- 

 selves. Rooks have deserted the rookery, and 

 are feeding their vociferous young in every 

 pasture, and under every green tree. The 

 swallow and swift are careering in the clear 

 skies, and 



Ten thousand insects in the air abound, 



Flitting on glancing wings that yield a summer sound. 



WlFFEN. 



The flower-garden is in the height of its splen- 

 dour. Roses of almost innumerable species, 

 I have counted no less than fourteen in a 

 cottage garden, lilies, jasmins, speedwells, 

 rockets, stocks, lupines, geraniums, pinks,, 

 poppies, valerians, red and blue, mignionette, 

 etc. and the glowing rhododendron abound. 



It is the very carnival of Nature, and she is 

 prodigal of her luxuries. It is luxury to walk 

 abroad, indulging every sense with sweetness, 



