28 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 



by means which blind man would have despised as inade- 

 quate by means which he has just discovered here too 

 shows the versatility, the contrast of its resources. In one 

 hour it lets loose the raging engines, not of its wrath, but 

 of its benevolence, and the volcano and the earthquake lift 

 up to the clouds the prop and the foundation of new worlds, 

 that from those clouds they may draw down the sources 

 of the rivers, the waters of fertility and plenty." 



" Millions of millions thus from age to age, 

 With simplest skill aud toil unweariable, 

 No moment and no movement unemployed, 

 Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread, 

 To swell the heightening, brightening, gradual mound, 

 By marvellous structure climbing towards the day. 

 Each wrought alone, yet altogether wrought 

 Unconscious, not unworthy instruments 

 By which a hand invisible was rearing 

 A new creation in the secret deep. 

 Omnipotence wrought in them, with them, by them ; 

 Hence what Omnipotence alone could do 

 Worms did. I saw the living pile ascend, 

 The mausoleum of its architects, 

 Still dying upwards as their labours closed. 

 Slime the material, but the slime was turned 

 To adamant by their petrific touch : 

 Frail were their frames, ephemeral their lives, 

 Their masonry imperishable." J. Montgomery. 



