EXCURSIONS ROUND LONDON.' 



dren ! and this feeling is heightened by recaU 

 ing, in idea, the halcyon days of their child- 

 hood. 



Happy age! when the countenance is 

 always irradiated with a smile; when we 

 diffuse over all those who surround us the 



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internal peace which we ourselves enjoy ! 

 Who but delights to retrace the happy age 

 of childhood, and to recal to mind the rural 

 sports of infancy? Hcrw gay and smiling 

 then did nature appear ! We trod upon beds 

 of flowers, and inhaled the perfume of 

 spring. The universe to us was an enchant- 

 ed abode. 



Infantile joy is reflected back upon the 

 parent. Who can describe the rapture of 

 & 'mother when she for the first time beholds 

 the infant that owes to her its exis- 

 tence, sporting upon the flowery mead ? 

 How does her heart thrill with transport, 

 when, bounding towards her, it presents her 

 tvith a harebell, a violet, or a daisy ! Nature 



then 



