These warblers sweet, on pinions borne, My heart with joy elate;

While by the Rill, on yonder Thorn

The Blackbird cheers his Mate.

How delightful is this place! amid the harmony of fprays, the fweet fmelling crowfoots, and the fmiling green which every where flushes the lovely cheek of furrounding nature, where is the man who can indulge himself in careleffnefs of thought? Write that man thoughtlefs indeed, unworthy of the bleffings of fpring.

But as for thou, O my foul, as the fap of vegitation arifes from the root to the top, improving the whole, climb the ladder of nature, contemplate thy God, fee his glory in all, and his goodness profufely scattered around.

Is there a fingle plant filent in his praife? Yes, filent they are, but expreffing infinitely more than language can unfold. Bear me witness of this ye lofty pines, which lift your ever verdent heads to the sky in honour of him.

I am here reminded of the earthly paradife when our firft father was placed in the delightful garden, midft trees in full verdure, the fruits of all which, one only excepted, he might freely eat; while the birds fang

melodiously around, and all creation was joy: And minds me ftill more of the paradife above, where fongs of everlasting praifes to God and the Lamb ftill refound.

May I join that happy concert of the redeemed before the throne, in finging that eternally sweet anthem of gratitude,

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us kings and priests unto God and his Fa"ther; to him be glory and dominion for "ever and ever. Amen." Rev. i. 5. where a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceedeth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb and in the midst of the street of the city, and on either fide of the river is there the tree of life which bears twelve manner of fruits, and yields her fruit every month; the leaves of which are for the healing of the nations, Rev. xxii. 1, 2.

Here grow a number of hazels: though they be but little efteemed in comparison of most other trees in the wood, yet are there none more fruitful, if indeed any fo

much: though they be humble plants, yet are they as useful in their kind as fome o ther trees which are more highly valued.

Not to fpeak of various other ufes they are for, that of hoops for fupporting ftaves. of far more valued wood is none of the least and as they hold up the ftaves, and the ftaves them, thus the one fupporting the other forms a complete veffel: fo tho the poor are numerous in the world, and but little esteemed in comparison of the rich and great; yet are they, generally fpeaking, most fruitful in holiness and good

works.

As hoops of the hazel support staves of esteemed wood; fo they hold up the rich and great in their affluence and dignity, and the rich and great fupport them.

Without the poor, not only the wealth, but the dignity of the great would foon come to nought, neither without thefe could thofe fubfift: thus the veffel of human fociety is ftill preserved uniformly up.