THE WONDERS OF THE LANE. 51 To mountain-winds the famished fox Complains that Sol is slow, O'er headlong steeps and gushing rocks But here the lizard seeks the sun, Its beauteous nest to make. Oh! then, while hums the earliest bee Walk thou with me, and stoop to see For oh! I love these banks of rock, This roof of sky and tree, These tufts, where sleeps the gloaming clock, And wakes the earliest bee! As spirits from eternal day Look down on earth, secure, Look here, and wonder, and survey A world in miniature. A world not scorned by Him who made But solemn in IIis depth of shade And splendid in His sight. ELLIOTT. SPRING POINTING TO GOD. LOOSED from the bands of frost, the verdant ground Behold the trees new-deck their withered boughs; Their ample leaves the hospitable plane, The taper elm, and lofty ash disclose; The blooming hawthorn variegates the scene. (The lily of the vale, of flowers the queen, Puts on the robe she neither sewed nor spun: The birds on ground, or on the branches green, Hop to and fro, and glitter in the sun. Soon as o'er eastern hills the morning peers, And cheerful singing, up the air she steers; Still high she mounts, still loud and sweet she sings. On the green furze, clothed o'er with golden blooms, That fill the air with fragrance all around, EFFECTS OF SPRING. The linnet sits, and tricks his glossy plumes, While o'er the wild his broken. notes resound. 53 While the sun journeys down the western sky, Beneath the blithesome shepherd's watchful eye, Now is the time for those who wisdom love, And follow Nature up to Nature's God. BRUCE. EFFECTS OF SPRING. THE great Sun, Scattering the clouds with a resistless smile, |