ence easy, to satisfy our wants, and awaken in our hearts just sentiments of gratitude.

3. Before our eyes there grows an innumerable quantity of fruit, in the fields and gardens; fruits which, after having pleased the sight, may be gathered and preserved for our present and future enjoyment: the luscious strawberry, the velvety plum, the bursting cherry, the downy peach, the purple pulpy grape, and hundreds of others.

4. The flowers afford the most agreeable variety to our senses; we admire their rich dress, and the inexhaustible fertility of nature, in the multiplicity of their species.

5. What variety and beauty also in the plants, from the humble moss to the stately oak! Let us climb the highest mountain, seek the cool shade of the woods, or descend into the valley, we shall everywhere find new beauties. A multitude of objects strike our eyes at once, all different from each other; but each in itself has charms enough to fix our attention. There we see innumerable flowers; here living creatures of different kinds.

6. If we lift up our eyes, they are delighted with the blue sky, if we cast them on the ground, they are refreshed by the beautiful verdure with which it is clothed. Our ear is charmed with the cheerful notes of the winged songsters; the variety and simplicity of their melody fills the soul with the sweetest of sensations. The murmuring of the brook, and the silver waves of a fine flowing river, also please the ear and eye.

7. Our barns and granaries are filled with the new productions of the fields and gardens, which afford us the most wholesome and agreeable food. The smell is gratified with the sweet perfume that exhales on every side. In a word, a thousand pleasing objects affect the senses, and raise our admiration.

8. Numerous flocks feed on the profusion of bountiful nature, to procure us pleasant and wholesome milk and nourishing meats. Abundant rains moisten the ground, and open to us new sources of blessings. Tufted trees and groves afford us a delightful shade. All that we see and hear, all that taste or smell can convey, increases our pleasures, and contributes to our happiness.

9. But the creation is a still greater and more enchanting object for the mind, than for the senses. In points which the latter cannot reach, the mind discovers beauty, harmony, variety, and new pleasures.

STURM.

LESSON CXV.

SOLILOQUY ON SLEEP.

1. How many thousands of my poorest subjects
Are at this hour asleep! O gentle Sleep!
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down,
And steep my senses in forgetfulness!

2. Why, rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee,

And hushed with buzzing night flies to thy slumber,
Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,
Under the canopies of costly state,

And lulled with sounds of sweetest melody?
3. O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile,
In loathsome beds, and leav'st the kingly couch
A watch case to a common larum bell?

4. Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast,
Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains.

In cradle of the rude imperious surge?
And in the visitation of the winds

Who take the ruffian billows by the top,

Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them
With deaf'ning clamors in the slippery shrouds,
That, with the hurly, Death itself awakes?
5. Canst thou, oh partial Sleep, give thy repose
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,
And in the calmest and the stillest night,
With all appliances and means to boot,
Deny it to a King? Then, happy, lowly clown!
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

OSHAKSPEARE.

THE RESURRECTION.

6. O tell me not, most subtle disputant,
That I shall die-the wick of life consumed,
And spite of all my hope drop in the grave,
Never to rise again!

7.

Will the Great God,

Who thus by annual miracle restores

The perished year, and youth and beauty gives
By resurrection strange, where none was asked,
Leave only man to be the scorn of time
And sport of death? Shall only he, one Spring,
One hasty Summer and one Autumn see,
And then to Winter irredeemable,

Be doomed, cast out, rejected, and despised?
8. Tell me not so; or by thyself enjoy
The melancholy thought. Am I deceived?
So let it be forever!—If I °err,

It is an error sweet and lucrative.

For should not Heaven a farther course intend

9.

Than the short race of life, I am at least
Thrice happier than thee, ill-boding fool!
Who striv'st in vain the awful doom to fly,
That I fear not.

But I shall live again,

And still on the sweet hope shall my soul feed.
A medicine it is that with a touch
Heals all the pains of life; a precious balm
That makes the tooth of sorrow venomless,
And of a hornet sting so keen °disarms
Adversity!

°HURDIS.

LESSON CXVI.

I CAN.

1. Of course you can. You show it in your looks, in your motion, in your speech, and everything else. Every attitude shows that your body has a soul, and is inhabited by resolution and moral sense.

2. I can. A brave, hearty, soulful, manly expression. There is character, force, °vigor, determination, and will in it. The words have a spirit, sparkle, and pungency about them not to be resisted or forgotten.

3. There is a world of meaning expressed. Whole lectures are there, and sermons of mighty grandeur and eloquence, on the stern and noble virtues.

4. We more than admire to hear the young man speak it out bravely, boldly, determined, as though it was an outstretching of his entire nature-a reflection of his inner soul. It tells of something that is earnest, sober, serious; of something that will race and battle with the world, when the way is open for it.

5. I can! What a spirit, purpose, intensity, reality, in the phrase. It is a strong arm, a stout heart, a bold eye, a firm spirit, an indomitable will. We never knew a man possessed of its vitality, unsubdued and energetic fire, that did not attain a place of some distinction among his fellows.

6. How should, we may say, how could it have been otherwise? Take Franklin, Washington, Furguson, La Place, and all the master spirits that have found a name and a place on the page of history, and where is the nation, where is the people among whom they would not be distinguished?

7. It could not be otherwise. It is the nature, constitution, order, necessity, the very inevitability of things and events that it should be so. I can, rightly and truly said, and then clinched and riveted by the manly and heroic deed, is the real secret, the true philosophy of all great men's lives. They took I can for a motto, and then went forth and made of themselves and the world exactly what they pleased.

8. Then, young men, hear us, if it be only this once. If you would be something more than a common, prosy wayfarer in life, just put these magic words on your lips, and their musing, hopeful, expanding philosophy into your heart and arms.

9. Say I can, and do it, and you are a man whose fortune will soon be made; and you blessed with the recollection of making it yourself.

INTELLIGENCER.

LESSON CXVII.

THE FAKENHAM GHOST.

1. THE lawns were dry in Euston Park;
(Here truth inspires my tale ;)

The lonely footpath still and dark;
Led over hill and dale.