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Each little flower that opens, 
Wriego of bodtionroy ef dobach little bird that sings, 
| He made their glowing colours, 
He made their tiny wings. 
' The rich man in his castle, 
The poor man at his gate, 
He made them, high or lowly, 
And ordered their, estate.”* 
“And Johnny was commanded to cease firing. ‘They love ‘these 
-verses,”’ our pastor continued, ‘as they love the flowers; and my hope 
“1s, that through life they may connect the one with the other.” 
~ «There is a wondrous revelation in these earth-stars, blue and golden, 
as Longfellow has told us in his grand melodious rhymes, and I trust 
we are reading it together. I love to imagine that’ when these boys 
‘are men, the labourer, going to his work and from it, may be reminded, 
‘as he looks upon these old familiar friends, of the lessons we are learning 
“now ; that ‘‘the hewers of wood” may stop to recognize, with pleasant 
‘memories of the past: and brighter hopes of the future, the Anemone, 
the Primrose, the Violet, the Lily, or the Hyacinth; that pale mechanics, 
in' their Sunday walk, may repeat to their little ones the precepts which 
are taught by the flowers; and that soldiers and sailors far away may 
‘dream of the meadow and the grove, and awake with a deeper affection 
.for their beautiful English’ birthland, a braver heart ‘to: maintain its 
“freedom. Yes, I love to imagine that the recollection of these happy 
owanderings among the summer flowers may help to revive in weary 
‘men ‘the freshness of boyhood’s happiness; that some of these lads may 
hereafter be of that company of whom our greatest sacred poet? has 
~ said :— 
q There are, in this loud stunning tide 
Of human care and crime, 
With whom the melodies abide 
Of th’ everlasting chime; _ 
Who carry music in their heart, 
Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, 
Plying their daily, task with busier feet, 
Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat ‘” 
cand may: know;to quote the words of our greatest: Divine since the 
> Reformation, { ‘how ‘to: “‘ reconcile) Martha’s employment with. Mary's 
» devotion:;> in the midst of the works of his trade to retire from time;to 
time within the chapel of his heart;: and. to converse. with: God. by 
frequent addresses and, returns.” 
‘7 want these little: men to be what Mr. Kingsley calls ‘‘ minute 
philosophers ;” to find by the roadside and by the brookside some of 
‘the riches which God has given to the poor;” to feel, as it is wisely 
said by Alphonse Karr, in that Tour round his Garden, which I would 
rather have written than ‘ Adam. Bede’ itself, ‘Le bonheur nest pas 
une rose bleue, le bonheur est Vherbe des pelouses, le liseron des champs, 
le rosier des hates; wh mot, un chant, vimporte quot.” 
»», And much more’ pleasant:converse: had I with our Curate: on that 
sweet summer’s eve, what time the happy boys were: racing to and:fro 
* From ‘* Hymns for Little Children.” , + Keble. 
» 4 Bishop Jeremy. Taylor. 
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