OoO GEAMLNACE2E. 



" Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere; 

 In the noisy city street 

 My pleasant face you'll meet, 

 Cheering the sick at heart, 

 Toiling his busy part, 

 Silently creeping, creeping everywhere. 



" Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere, 

 More welcome than the flowers 

 In summer's pleasant hours; 

 The gentle cow is glad, 

 And the merry bird not sad 

 To see me creeping, creeping everywhere. 



" Here I come creeping, creeping everywhere ; 

 When you're numbered with the dead, 

 In your still and narrow bed, 

 In the happy spring I'll come, 

 And deck your silent home, 

 Creeping silently, creeping everywhere. 



" Sere I come creeping, creeping everywhere ; 

 My humble song of praise 

 Most gratefully I raise 

 To Him, at whose command 

 I beautify the land, 

 Creeping silently, creeping everywhere." 



And James Ballantine draws a lesson of trust from the daily 

 nourishment of the Grasses. 



" Confide ye aye in Providence, for Providence is kind, 

 And bear ye a' life's changes wi' a calm and tranquil mind.; 

 Tho' pressed and hemm'd on every side hae faith and ye'll win thro', 

 For ilka blade o' Grass keps its ain drap o' dew." 



The various families of the corn Grasses may each be divided 

 into two parts 1st, the eatable ; 2nd, the field species. 



The Wheat family needs to be twice divided, and the groups 

 thus formed are called Wheats, Spelts, and Grasses. The 

 botanical name of this family, Triticum, is derived from a 

 word signifying rubbed, in allusion to the grinding of the 

 grain. 



Of true edible Wheats there are many varieties. The Hard 

 Wheat has a compound spike, and grows very luxuriantly in 

 Egypt ; the Polish Wheat has long chaff and hard grains ; the 

 lied and White Wheat vary in different soils, the straw 



