140 JUNE. 



life, greenness, and vigour. Families of young 

 birds are abroad, and give their parents a busy 

 life of it, till they can peck for themselves. 

 Rooks have deserted the rookery, and are feed- 

 ing their vociferous young in every pasture, and 

 under every green tree. The swallow and swift 

 are careering in the clear skies, and 



Ten thousand insects in the air abound, 



Flitting on glancing wings that yield a summer sound. 



VYlFFEN. 



The flower-garden is in the height of its splen- 

 dour. Roses of almost innumerable species, — 

 I have counted no less than fourteen in a cot- 

 tage garden, — lilies, jasmins, speedwells, rock- 

 ets, stocks, lupines, geraniums, pinks, poppies, 

 valerians, red and blue, mignionette, etc. and 

 the glowing rhododendron abound. 



It is the very carnival of Nature, and she is 

 prodigal of her luxuries. It is luxury to walk 

 abroad, indulging every sense with sweetness, 

 loveliness, and harmony. It is luxury to stand 

 beneath the forest side, when all is still and 

 basking at noon ; and to see the landscape sud- 

 denly darken, the black and tumultuous clouds 

 assemble as at a signal ; to hear the awful thun- 

 der crash upon the listening ear; and then, to 

 mark the glorious bow rise on the lurid rear of 

 the tempest, the sun laugh jocundly abroad, and 



Every bathed leaf and blossom fair 

 Pour out its soul to the delicious air. 



