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with emblems. Invisible things, that relate 

 especially to our present state of being, are 

 made known by the things that are ; even 

 the shrubs and flowers which grow beside 

 our path-way, are faithful monitors, and, 

 either in their decay or renovation, suggest 

 to us thoughts of hope or consolation. Most 

 of them, when months have done their work, 

 grow weak in their decrepitude, and yielding 

 no longer flowers, nor yet leaves, with which 

 to gladden the place where they have grown, 

 die down into the earth. Still they are not 

 lost, for again upspringing from the root or 

 seed, the same plant apparently, though not 

 the same, is seen, as if rejoicing in the con- 

 sciousness of its new existence. The young 

 herb or flower, that thus opens to the sun, 

 sparkling Avith the dews of morning, and 

 fresh from out its earthly bed, bids the 

 passer-by not to sorrow for those who are 

 departed, as one who has no hope, but rather 



