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few of them are capable of a single service, except to amuse 

 the little hour of life, or hardly this; for are not most of 



them discarded by their riders, as worn out before them? 



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But it is never thus with the gentle steeds which have borne 

 us through the flowery paths of nature. To the end of time 

 these will carry us ; nay, they will do more, for where is the 

 path of nature which leads not from the world we live in, 

 ascending to its Mighty Author and to the worlds unseen, of 

 which in this, and in its minutest objects, we dimly discover 

 innumerable types and shadows ? Will not then our mounted 

 May Fly, alias Day Fly, serve to symbolize an innocent and 

 pleasant pursuit, such a one as may help, at all events, to make 

 the year pass as a day, and that a day of May ? 



