168 THE CHRISTIAN NATURALIST. 



Many, indeed, and vast are the ideas which a sight 

 of the blue ocean raay suggest ; and he who can walk 

 on its shores and cast his eye over the mighty expanse ; 

 he who can behold its rippling waves, or its foaming 

 billows, without feeling a deep emotion from the source 

 of all that is beautiful, awful and sublime rushing upon 

 his soul, must be dead to all true sensibility. In the 

 presence of such a scene, few will refuse to join with 

 the Poet when he exclaims, — 



With wonder mark the moving wilderness of waves, 



From pole to pole through boundless space diffused, 



Magnificently dreadful ! where at large 



Leviathan, with each inferior name 



Of sea-born kinds — ten thousand tribes — 



Find endless range for pasture and for sport. 



Adoring own 



The hand Almighty, who its channell'd bed 

 Immeasurable sunk, and poured abroad ; 

 Fenc'd with eternal mounds the fluid sphere. 

 With every wind to waft large commerce on, 

 Join pole to pole, consociate sever'd worlds, 

 And link in bonds of intercourse and love 

 Earth's universal family. 



Here it is that we may contemplate the Great Governor 

 of the Universe in some of the noblest of his attri- 

 butes, and in some of the grandest of his dispensations. 

 Here it is that he talks with man in the voice of the 



