192 PASQUE-FLOWER. 



or beneath the shade of oracular trees. Had 

 the light of natural history shone on them, 

 as it shines on us, they would have seen 

 only in the beautiful construction of a sim- 

 ple flower, fresh causes of belief in the mi- 

 nistry and presiding care of thoughtful genii. 

 But the Christian poet, borrowing from all 

 natural objects some fresh incentive to ac- 

 tive duty, might look upon the flower of 

 the heath, and remember, in the beautiful 

 words of a gifted writer, that " any Christian 

 spirit working kindly in its little sphere, 

 ^^^ll find its mortal life too short for its vast 

 means of usefulness." 



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