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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 18 RETURN OF SPRING. animal world, are then lying buried amidst the darkness and desolation of that period. The eye, accustomed to observation, looks abroad from day to day, but only to behold the face of the earth in its torpor and sterility. The hills and the valleys, once clothed with variegated beauty, exhibit scarcely a vestige of their rich attire: it seems almost as if the pulse of life stood still. But, when spring comes, a change which, apart from its familiarity, would be truly astounding, bursts on the view. Nature starts again into life and splendour, for God has given the word, and a genial warmth is diffused around, scattering blessings through air, and earth, and water. The sun, the great depository of light and heat, is as a giant coming forth from his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race, and beneath his precious influences the wilderness and the solitary place become glad, and the desert rejoices and blossoms as the rose. It is as if there were a resurrection from all the chambers of the dead, except the sepulchres of men; and every breeze bears on its wings millions of newly awakened creatures, to enjoy for their appointed time the elements around. To adopt the words of our poet Thomson: Go, see where surly winter passes off, Far to the jiuri.li, aud calls his ruffian blasts: animal wor and desola- to observe, only to beli RETURN OF SPRING. His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill, The shattered forest, and the ravaged vale; While softer gales succeed, at -whose kind touch, Dissolving snows in livid torrents lost, The mountains lift their green heads to the sky. Now no more The expansive atmosphere is cramped with cold; But, full of life and vivifying soul, Lifts the light clouds sublime, and spreads them thin, ...

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