132 DROPS FROM FLORA'S CUP. 
presents, as encouragement to trust in God, a com¬ 
parison between the stability of God’s word and 
tiie instability of frail, passing man. ‘All flesh is 
grass, and all the goodliness thereof as the flower of 
the field : The grass with ere th, the. flower fadeth; 
but the word of our God shall stand forever.’ 
MILTON. 
Let the earth 
Put forth the verdant grass, herb, yielding seed, 
And fruit tree yielding fruit after her kind, 
"Whose seed is in herself upon the earth, 
Ee scarce had said, when the bare earth, till then 
Desert and bare, unsightly, unadorned, 
Brought forth the tender grass, whose verdure olad 
Her universal face with pleasant green ; 
Then herbs of every leaf that sudden flowered 
Opening, their various colors, and made gay 
Her bosom, smiling sweet. 
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