LESSON XXXIT. 



ON DAYS AND NIGHTS. 



My God, all nature owns thy sway : 

 Thou giv'st the Night, and Thou the Day ! 

 When all thy lov'd creation wakes, 

 When Morning, rich in lustre, breaks, 

 And bathes in dew the opening llow'r, 

 To Thee we owe her fragrant hour; 

 And when she pours her choral song, 

 Ker melodies to Thee belong ! 

 Or when, in paler tints array'd, 

 The Evening slowly spreads her shade ; 

 That soothing shade, that grateful gloom, 

 Can more than Day's enliv'ning bloom, 

 Still ev'ry fond and vain desire, 

 And calmer, purer thoughts inspire; 

 From eartli the pensive spirit free, 

 And lead the soften'd heart to Thee 



Miss WILLIAMS. 



PjlEVIOUSLYto the dawn of thetruepbilosnphy, 

 when several erroneous opinions were entertained 

 by philosophers, the principal one with regard to 

 the form of the earth was, that it was a vastly 

 wide extended plain ; lhat the visible horizon 

 bounded the earth, and the ocean bounded the 

 horizon. To account for Day and Night, it was 

 then imagined that thesun in the morning emerged 

 from the eastern ocean, and, after pursuing his 



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