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. , -j r . I felt a sense of pain when I beheld ,, itbe wJetife trees and the intruding sky , * Those silent trees ! how violence stands rebuked before them ; | i 9 W 3 tn ^|> athy answers to the moral sentiment with which they s $$ m 3 * p * bue < l ! They were defenceless , and they wer ^ e wronged
andruined , and all this wrong and ruin is sacrilege—they were so pure , so unoffending . To me these trees embody the idea of humility— -their fete , the world ' s usage of humility . Could I wake the image of Humility in marble , it should be as a girl , just at that early point of time * n whteh the s \ tony light of childhood passes away into the mist which an undeflnable consciousness of change throws round her , and through the silvery atmosphere of which gleam trembling tays whieH make her tremble too . . -
^ Jn the life of a gentle , an amiable wooftan ^ humility is the first #£ * &e > Btibniission the second , and resignation the last . i * W the first I pity her , and weep in very agony of compassion , ft * r * he is ht the mercy of those who can oJ ; ' f . 'i ¦ „ ,, drag ^ to earth both branch and bough with crush And merciless ravage / her the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 684, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/56/
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