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BRAMBLES AND BAY LEAVES. 
But from that ruin shall other cities arise, and a nobler 
race of frank-browed men shall pass in the streets, and 
maidens fair walk on the green lawns to welcome in the 
morns of spring. There shall be flowery islands in the 
future, and the summerVshine shall fall on meadows 
green, on which the children of the future men shall 
play. The young birds shall carol from their leafy 
homes, as if the trees sang forth themselves, and the new 
generation shall have the dreams of the present all ful¬ 
filled. 
Heart! be thou like the grass; welcome man and 
woman with thy smile: be thou green in winter as in 
summer; assort thyself with brown bees, and homely 
things that bless the world, keeping thy blossom by ttiee 
to gild the pathway of the future. Thy days are as few 
as the grass; as the grass that grow r eth to-day, and to¬ 
morrow is cast into the oven. “ For euen as the flower 
of the grasse shall he vanishe awaye. The sunne ryseh 
wyth heete, and the grasse widereth, and his flower 
falleth away, and the beautie of the fashion of it perish- 
eth.”* Heart! be thou like the grass—fragrant, fair, 
gentle, and fertile in good works ; for which God be 
thanked, for its beauties are beyond description, and its 
uses beyond enumeration. 
♦ Bible, 1551. 
