THE HAREBELL AND GRASS. 
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THE HAREBELL AND GRASS. 
CAMPANULA ROTUNDIFOLIA. GRAMEN. 
“ As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field so he 
flourisheth. 
“ For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof 
shall know it no more.” 
The exquisite adaptation of scriptural imagery to the 
subject intended to be illustrated must be apparent 
to the commonest observer. Is sublimity required ? 
“ The heavens above, the earth beneath,” nay, even 
“ things under the earth,” are put in requisition to give 
dignity to the subject; and whilst imagination sinks 
under the accumulated grandeur of the figures employed, 
nothing seems strained, nothing out of place. In the 
same manner when pathos is intended, what can exceed 
the touching propriety, if one may so speak, of the 
illustrations selected? what, for instance, can form a 
more mournful comment on man’s earthly history than 
the simile which compares him to grass, and his glory to 
