Wart BRAMBLES 
AND 
BAY LEAVES: 
ESSAYS ON THINGS HOMELY AND BEAUTIFUL. 
BY 
SHIRLEY HIBBERD, 
AUTHOR OP “RUSTIC ADORNMENTS POR HOMES OP TASTE,” 
“THE TOWN GARDEN,” ETC., ETC. 
“ The common, the terrestrial, thou may’st see, 
With serviceable cunning knit together, 
The nearest with the nearest; and therein 
I trust thee and believe thee ! But whate’er, 
Pull of mysterious import, Nature weaves 
And fashions in the depths—the spiiit’s ladder, 
That from this gross and visible world of dust, 
f.ven to the starry w orld, with thousand rounds. 
Builds itself up ; on which the unseen powers 
Move up and down on heavenly ministries— 
The circles in the circles, that approach 
Tne central sun with ever narrowing orbit— 
These see the glance aloue, the unsealed eye.” 
Schiller*s Piccolo mint. —CoLEKIUGB 
third edition. 
LONDON 
GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, 5, PATERNOSTER ROW. 
MDCCCLXXII. 
