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matical; fronds of various species will now develop themselves, and attain their full dimensions; and all that will be needful, is to keep them within moderate limits, by an occasional plucking of the more vigorous among them, or a diminution of their luxuriance.



Again I bid farewell to my courteous reader. Again we have had fellowship together in tracing some of the wonders of an Almighty Hand, but how much remains unexplored! "Lo! these are parts of his ways, but how slight a whisper is heard of Him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?" (Job xxvi. 14.)

"Yes! as a drop of water in the sea,
All this magnificence in Thee is lost:—
What are ten thousand worlds compar'd to Thee?
And what am I then? Heaven's unnumber'd host,
Though multiplied by myriads, and array'd
In all the glory of sublimest thought,
Is but an atom in the balance weigh'd
Against thy greatness; is a cypher brought
Against infinity! What am I then? Nought!

"Nought! But the effluence of thy light divine,
Pervading worlds, hath reach'd my bosom too.
Yes! in my spirit doth thy Spirit shine
As shines the sun-beam in a drop of dew.
Nought! But I live, and on hope's pinions fly
Eager towards thy presence; for in Thee
I live, and breathe, and dwell; aspiring high,
Even to the throne of thy divinity:
For Thou hast deign'd to link thyself with me!"

FINIS.