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in mead or hedge-bank are more widely 

 scattered ; she may be seen on heaps of rub- 

 bish, in company with those simple grasses 

 which Linnaeus knelt beside, when looking 

 at them, and praised the Lord for having 

 made. And often, when twining beside the 

 cottage window, she seems, while shaken by 

 the fresh morning air, to motion the sleep- 

 ing inmates to arise. Come forth, ye sleep- 

 ing ones, for thus the Muse interprets her 

 soft voice ; a glorious light is spreading 

 on the hills, and the stars are bhnking, 

 and already the lark is seen upspringing 

 from among the gorses on the moor ; those 

 mountain gorses, which teach men to be 

 strong, however pricked and encompassed 

 with sharp trials, like their own bright thorn- 

 encompassed blossoms, wliich look cheerful 

 when the snow and hail beat heavily upon 

 their sterile growing-places ; which teach 

 gladness, when no outward sources of glad- 



