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

While by the Rill, on yonder Thorn,

The Blackbird cheers his Mate.

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How delightful is this place! amid the harmony of fprays, the sweet smelling crowfoots, and the smiling green which every where flushes the lovely cheek of furrounding nature, where is the man who can indulge himself in carelessness of thought? Write that man thoughtless indeed, unworthy of the bleffings of spring. .........

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 profusely scattered around.

Is there a fingle plant filent in his praise ? 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.

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I am here reminded of the earthly paradife when our first father was placed in the delightful garden, midst 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 still more of the paradise above, where songs of everlasting praises to God and the Lamb still resound.

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May I join that happy concert of the redeemed before the throne, in finging that eternally sweet anthem of gratitude, “ " to him that loved us, and washed us from " our fins in his own blood, and hath made " 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 esteemed 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 some o ther trees which are more highly valued.

Not to speak of various other uses they are for, that of hoops for fupporting staves of far more valued wood is none of the least: and as they hold up the staves, and the staves them, thus the one fupporting the other forms a complete vessel: so tho the poor are numerous in the world, and but little esteemed in comparison of the rich and great; yet are they, generally speaking, most fruitful in holiness and good works.

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As hoops of the hazel support staves of esteemed wood; so 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 these could those subsist: thus the vessel of human fociety is still preferved uniformly up.