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the other to the North ? and who guides them 
both on their trackless way ? 
‘Whither, ’midst falling dew, 
While glow the heavens with the last steps of day. 
Far through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue 
Thy solitary way? 
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‘There is a Power whose care 
Teaches thy way along the pathless coast. 
The desert and illimitable air— 
Lone wandering, but not lost. 
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‘ He who from zone to zone 
Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight. 
In the long way that I must tread alone 
Will lead my steps aright.’ 
“ Many of these annual aerial voyages are 
made in the night, when all the landmarks are 
hidden by the darkness, yet the markless path¬ 
way is unerringly kept. How soon would man, 
left thus without waymark or compass, be at 
his wits’ end, wandering he knows not where! 
Reason must have basis and initial-point from 
which to start, and ever-recurring indices, or it 
fails to reach the desired end, but God keeps 
the pilotage of his feathered creatures, so that 
one cannot fall to the ground nor lose its airy 
