MY OWJf EXPERIENCE. 219 



usual hour of feeding, will come far on the way to 

 meet aae ; I am proud to have them about me. 



• * * * 



" He prayetli well that loveth well 

 Both man, and bird, and beast ; 



He prayeth best, who loveth beat 

 All things, both great and email ; 

 For the dear God who loveth us. 

 He made, and loves them all," 



" No man can tether time or tide," this is 

 beyond the energies even of the " Henwife," 

 and I must now make my cong4, a book not 

 being (as were Othello's " bloody thoughts") — 



" Like to the Pontic Sea, 

 Whose icy current and compulsive course 

 Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on 

 To the Propontic and the Hellespont." 



I would not lag "superfluous on the stage:" 

 sweet is the sailor's rest when the voyage is over, 

 and sweet the Author's dreams when the toil is 

 ended. 



Many, perhaps, have deemed me a fanatic, and 

 have, long siace, thrown away my book as the 

 raving of a monomaniac. 



