THE AVOXDEKS OF THE SHORE. o 



nestly, and thinking over earnestly, in a world 

 like this, about the making of the least part 

 whereof God has employed ages and ages, 

 further back than wisdom can guess or ima<Ti- 

 nation picture, and upholds that least part every 

 moment by laws and forces so complex and so 

 wonderful, that science, when it tries to fiithom 

 them, can only learn how little it can learn ? 

 And does it not seem to you that six weeks' 

 rest, free from the cares of town business, and 

 the whirlwind of town pleasure, could not be 

 better spent than in examining those wonders 

 a little, instead of wandering up and down like 

 the many, still wrapt up each in their little world 

 of vanity and self-interest, unconscious of what 

 and where they really are, as they gaze lazily 

 around at earth and sea and sky, and have 



"No speculation in those eyes 

 Wliich tlicy do glare witlial"? 



Why not, tlicn, ti-y to discover a lew of the 

 "Wonders of tlie Shore ? For wonders there arc 

 there around you at every step, stranger than 

 ever opium-eater dreamed, and yet to be seen 

 at no greater expense tlian a very litllc time 

 and trouble. 



