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* Child of the Sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight, 

 Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light ; 

 And where the flowers of Paradise unfold 

 Quaff" fragrant nectar from their cups of gold : 

 There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky, 

 Expand and shut with silent extacy. 



-^— Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept 

 On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept ? 

 And such is man ; soon from his cell of clay 

 To burst a seraph in the blaze of day.' — Rogers. 



This subject is in itself so interesting that it deserves 

 here a further illustration, and this has been done with 

 much propriety by a distinguished Entomologist of the 

 day, whose words we take the liberty to borrow : ' Al- 

 though/ he observes, * the analogy between the different 

 states of insects and those of the body of man is only 

 general, yet it is much more complete with respect to 

 his soul. The first appears in this frail body a child 

 of earth, a crawling worm, his soul being in a course 

 of training and preparation for a more perfect and glo- 

 rious existence. Its course being finished, it casts off 

 the earthly body, and goes into a hidden state of being 

 in Hades, where it rests from its works, and !s prepared 

 for its final consummation. The time for this being 

 arrived, it comes forth clothed with a glorious body, 

 not like its former, though germinating from it, for 



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