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gold to our gardens, when the chickweed appears, its foliage 

 scattered with tiny pearls, and every other weed comes to us 

 as one of Spring's harbingers, we will give them their due and 

 acknowledge that there is a beauty, an individual charm, about 

 each of them. For " everything contributes somewhat to the 

 use and benefit, or to the beauty of the whole ; no weed grows 

 out of the earth, no insect creeps upon the ground, which hath 

 not elegancy and yields not its profit ; nothing is abominable 

 or despicable, though all things are not alike amiable or admir- 

 able." Would that this beautiful sentence of Bishop Burrow's 

 liad an echo in the hearts of many more of us ! 



