204 MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON. CHAP. IX. 



CHAPTER IX. 



LIFE IN VARIOUS ASPECTS. 



'"Twos a sight 

 Of wonder to behold the body and soul. 



The self-same lineaments, the same 



Marks of identity, were there : 

 Yet, oh, how different ! one aspires to heaven, 

 Pants for its sempiternal heritage, 

 And, ever changing, ever rising still, 



Wantons in endless being. 

 The other, for a time the unwilling sport 

 Of circumstance and passion, struggles on ; 

 Fleets through its sad duration rapidly." 



QUEEN MAB. 



HAVING taken a general view of the results of the years 

 of labour noticed in the preceding chapter, it will be well 

 to retrace our steps, and to note what is otherwise of most ' 

 interest in the same period. This may be considered the 

 summer of George Wilson's life : in it the harvest was 

 ripening which, not long after, showed itself ready for the 

 sickle and the ingathering. 



The ardent love with which his students regarded him 

 found expression at the close of the Session 1845-46, in 

 the presentation of a very handsome analytical balance, 

 weighing to the loooth part of a grain. It was given at 

 a public dinner, at which Professor Goodsir, Dr. Seller, 



