136 GLOBE-FLOWER. 



green, while the shepherd's needle, with its 

 small white flowers, the cowslip, and blue 

 bell, bladder scorpion, and St. John's wort, 

 varied the sterile soil. 



The charm of association is familiar to 

 every cultivated mind. Whether remote or 

 near, it is ever a chief source of pleasure 

 or emotion, and when the objects which 

 awaken our remembrances are miited with 

 the beautiful or picturesque in nature, the 

 effect is proportionably increased. How un- 

 speakably important then, is the blending 

 of religious thoughts and feelings with all 

 that is verdurous and lovely in this beau- 

 tiful creation, with those noble trees that 

 shade us from the noonday heat, with such 

 bright flowers as spring beside our pathway, 

 that when the mind begins to weary, and 

 the cares of life press heavily, our inmost 

 being may be refreshed with thoughts of 

 peace and love ! Ancient heathens well 



