JUNE. 97 



With those whose mansions glitter in his sight, 

 Calls the delightful survey all his own. 

 His are the mountains, and the valleys his, 

 And the resplendent rivers : his to enjoy 

 With a propriety that none can feel, 

 But who. with filial confidence inspired, 

 Can lift to heaven an unpresumptuous eye, 

 And smiling say, * My Father made them all !' 

 Are they not his by a peculiar right, 

 And by an emphasis of interest his, 

 Whose eye they fill with tears of holy joy, 

 Whose hearrwith praise, and whose exalted mind, 

 With worthy thoughts of that unwearied love, 

 That planned, and built, and still upholds, a world 

 So clothed with beauty for rebellious man ?" 



COWPER. 



The soil is chalk, through which the green sand 

 peeps in places, while the vegetation is luxuriant beyond 

 description ; the trees are principally beech and birch, 

 intermixed with hazel, oak and juniper; while the her- 

 bage beneath is a perfect carpet of flowers, marjoram, 

 wild thyme and cowslips (here provincially called 

 <( Paigles"), together with Orchidece, and many other 

 rare plants. But let us commence operations, and first 

 we will beat those yew trees upon the hill ; hilloa ! 

 what is this plain yellowish insect I have beaten out ? 

 Let me see ! a good beginning, that is Lithosia helvola ; 

 try again ; good ! Aventia flexula now ! Our luck has 

 set in ; and, while " the tide" of our affairs is at the flood, 

 let us make our Entomological fortune if we can, and 

 to this end let us search those beech trees, and, perhaps, 

 we may find Tortrix cinnamomeana. In t( Headley 

 Lane" Lithosia complana occurs; while among the 

 birches we may find Ephyra orbicular ia. In the 



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