DROPS PROM FLORA’S CUP. 131 
Leads down another current, never more' * 
To blend with ours: yet far within our souls, 
Amidst the rushing of the busy world, 
Dwells many a secret thought, which Ungers still 
Around that image 1 ’ 
GRASS. 
Surely nothing in the vegetable kingdom grows 
more profusely, and eventually proves more bene¬ 
ficial, than the grass of the field, which, 4 to-day 
is, and to-morrow is cut down.' 
God has given it a conspicuity among the works 
of his hands, which came from chaos at his 4 creat¬ 
ing nod. ’ After the 4 light was divided from the 
darkness,’—the heavens and the earth were 
formed; Omnipotence, as if anticipating the neces¬ 
sities of the creatures he should soon create to 
inhabit the earth, said, ‘let the earth bring forth 
grass.’ David tells us, that ‘He causeth grass to 
grow for the cattle. ’ 
In holy writ man’s fleeting days are compared to 
grass, — 4 the wind passeth over it and it is gone.' 
Deter, in his first general epistle, tolls us, that 4 aU 
flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the 
flower of grass. The grass witliereth, and the 
flower thereof faUeth away.’ Isaiah, when com¬ 
forting the people of Jerusalem, concerning the 
coming of him who should 4 cry in the wilderness, 4 
