THE WONDEES OF THE SHORE. 3 



but does it not seem to you, that there must surely 

 be many a thing worth looking at earnestly, and 

 thinking over earnestly, in a world like this, about 

 the making of the least part whereof God has em- 

 ployed ages and ages, further back than w^isdom 

 can guess or imagination picture, and upholds that 

 least part every moment by laws and forces so com- 

 plex and so wonderful, that science, when it tries 

 to fathom 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 \vrapt 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 

 Whicli they do glare withal " ? 



Why not, then, try to discover a few of the Won- 

 ders of the Shore? For wonders there are there 

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