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ness and silence, the spiritual graces and gifts be- 

 stowed upon us : nor in neglecting, in our energetic 

 desire for action, those lesser considerations and at- 

 tentions which are absolutely requisite to bind to- 

 gether human society, to ameliorate the else, too 

 galling, friction of unspiritualised life. We will make 

 it a monitor to test whether in our own cases, 



" The world is too much with us, late and soon ;" 

 whether 



" Getting, and spending, we lay waste our powers," 



SO that, 



" Little we see in nature that is ours ; 

 We have given our hearts away; a sordid boon !" 



We will go forth from the world of cares, with its 

 artificial habits; and leave for once the exhilirations 

 and the depressions which attend the actual affairs 

 of daily life ; we will leave the prose of toil awhile, 

 and wander with the poets until we can return to it 

 with spirits freshened, and energies renewed by an 

 uninterrupted communion with nature ; we will go 

 forth and worship where, 



* * " Each floral bough that swingeth 



And tolls its perfume in the passing air, 

 Makes sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth 

 A call to prayer. 



"Not in the domes where crumbling arch and column 

 Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, 

 But to that fane, most catholic and solemn, 

 Which God hath planned."* 



* Horace Smith. 



