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INTRODUCTORY PIECES. 
The same .— mrs. robinson. 
- Now the air 
Is rich in fragrance ! fragrance exquisite 
As new mown hay ! 
Then, solitude, ’tis thine in eveTy gale 
To hear celestial breathings ; from each hil'I 
To quaff the balmy essence of the breeze ; 
To mark, in every magic change of scene, 
The grand diversities of nature’s laws, 
Yet find in all the ever-present God ! 
Whose power, sublime, with equal wonder 
moves 
In the small floweret bursting from the earth, 
As in the sphere-crown’d eagle's towering wing. 
The same .— cowper. 
The Lord of all, himself through all diffus’d, 
Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. 
Nature is but a name for an effect. 
Whose cause is God. He feeds the secret fire. 
By which the mighty process is maintain’d, 
Who sleeps not, is not weary ; in whose sight 
Slow circling ages are as transient days; 
Whose work is without labour ; whose designs 
No flaw deforms, no difficulty thwarts ; 
And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. 
Him blind antiquity profan’d, not serv’d, 
