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I slip, I slide, I gleam, I glance, 



Among my skimming swallows, 

 I make the nettled sunbeam dance, 



Against the sandy shallows. 



I murmur under moon and stars, 



In brambly wildernesses, 

 I linger by my shingly bars, 



I loiter round my cresses. 



And out again I curve and flow, 



To join the brimming river, 

 For men may come and men may go, 



But I go on forever." 



From another we have the following: 



''Theres not a tint that paints the rose, 



Or decks the lily fair, 

 Or streaks the humblest flower that grows, 



But Heaven has placed it there. 



There's not a place in Earth's vast round, 



In ocean deep or air. 

 Where skill and wisdom are not found, 



For Christ is everywhere. 



In regard to the wilful slaughter of animals or any 



of the creatures found upon the earth, Cowper says: 



I would not enter upon my list of friends, 

 The man — though posessed of polished manners and 

 fine sense — 

 Who needlessly sets his foot upon a worm. 



From ''The Task:' 



He also adds that where these creatures prove of 

 disadvantage in any way, or are required for food we 

 have a right to slay them, but not otherwise. 



BIRDS OF THE BIBLE. 



As most of these birds have been described in the 

 first part of this book. Their names and the passages 

 relating to them will alone be given here. They are 

 as follows: raven, bittern crane, owl, swallow, ostrich, 



