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the class of innocent deUghU . While the author and her help-mate , who contributes a portion of the volume , are at home amid all the subjects of these sketches , there are three or four which especially com . mend themselves by their poetical spirit , and one or two by their humorousness . The satire of 'The Web-spinner mil occasion many a reflective smile , and the merriment of the ' Monkey will waken the echoes of many a youthful laugh and good will it be for young voices
to learn the stately music of the * Cedar Tree / that noble work of the Creator : —* * All within the garden , That angels came to see . He set in groves , and on the hills , The goodly cedar tree / Or to chaunt the * Broom Flower /—
O the broom , the yellow broom , The ancient poet sung it , And dear it is on summer days To lie at rest among it * And , doubtless , to many of them her * Garden' will eo realize itself in the memory , as to seem to have been their own :
' I had a garden when a child , I kept it all in . order , 'Twas full of flowers as it could be , And London pride was its border . * And all within my garden ran A labyrinth walk so mazy ; In the middle there grew a yellow rose , At each end a Michaelmas daisy . '
Throughout these sketches , there is that complacency in nature , even to its lowliest formations , which is so large an element of the religion whose spirit is love . Take for a specimen , the woodmouse at bis dinner , * under a mushroom tall . — 4 1 saw him sit , and his dinner eat , All under the forest tree ; His dinner of chestnut ripe and red , And he ate it heartily *
* I wish you could have seen him there ; It did my spirit good , — To see the small thing God had made . Thus eating in the wood .
• I saw that he regarded them—Those creatures weak and small ; Their table in the wild is spread , By Him who cares for all 1 '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 532, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/72/
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