4 CONTEMPLATIONS ON 



curiosity, or as a vehicle only for amusing anec- 

 dotes, but as affording proofs of a superintending 

 Providence, i( whose mercies are over all his 

 works." 



O, Nature ! all thy seasons please the eye 

 Of him who sees a Deity in all. 

 It is His presence that diffuses charms 

 Unspeakable, o'er mountain, wood and stream. 

 To think that He, who hears the heavenly choirs, 

 Hearkens complacent to the woodland song ; 

 To think that He, who rolls yon solar sphere, 

 Uplifts the warbling songster to the sky ; 

 To mark His presence in the mighty bow 

 That spans the clouds to hear his awful voice 

 In thunder speak, and whisper in the gale ; 

 To know and feel his care for all that lives ; 

 'Tis this that makes the barren waste appear 

 A fruitful field, each grove a paradise.* 



If we were asked to examine some curious 

 piece of mechanism, we should not fail to express 

 our admiration or wonder at its ingenious contri- 

 vance. It is, however, astonishing with what care- 

 less indifference many persons view the works of 

 Almighty God. They see minute objects around 

 them, and think little of them, forgetting that 

 nothing is so mean, nothing is so apparently tri- 

 fling, but that the wonderful order, and wise dis- 

 position of the Creator is perceptible in it. Indeed 

 the stupendous economy of the Deity may be 



* JAMES GRAHAM. 



