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    fruit , for any vile chance to devour it . What is thought of the birth of a human being , merely as such ; and that , too , with all that is preached and professed about the immortality of the soul , and the price at which redemption has been purchased for the race ; - —wbat , I repeat , with all this , is thought * of the birth of a human being ? Less than of the birth of a calf or a foal . If a child be born to an inheritance , in proportion to the amount or kind of that inheritance , it excites a sensation : for the

    endowments it derives from man , it commands regard ; but for the endowments it derives from God , none . The principle is in action in all ranks ; from the scavenger to the sceptre-holder , the creature is estimated , not according as God has gifted him , but according as man has enriched him . This , too , in despite of the evidence nature gives of impartiality , —notwithstanding that genius , hedged about as it mostly is , continually starts , like electric fire from the cloud , and , seizing the sceptre of power , shows the coin-counters

    and rule-makers of society , that , though they will not foster , they cannot always frustrate , the designs of nature . But is it thus th $ best wealth which she lavishes on the world ought to be treated And how much may thus , day by day , be lost . Genius is not always instinct with the vital energy of endurance ; nay , is often associated with feelings which turn back on their possessor , and consummate ruin by involuntary self-immolation .

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    716 The Departure of Summer .

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    Wherefore did ye flit away , 'Summer's glowing hours ?

    Wherefore did ye all decay , Summer ' s blooming flowers ? Ye have pass'd me like a dream , Like a shadow o ' er a stream .

    * Tis not wise to weep for thee ; Thou wilt come again Summer , with thy minstrelsy , And thy blooming train : Yet my heart must droop the while , * For it lives in thy sweet smile . 7

    Where thy faded wreath is strown , Autumn cloth entwine Bloom and fragrance for his own , Richer far than thine ; But the splendour which it shows , Hath no fragrance like thy rose .

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    THE DEPARTURE OF SUMMER .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1834, page 716, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2638/page/40/