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sun in very eccentric ellipses. They vary in size, and move in di erent directions. The train or tail sometimes extends to an immense distance, and is· so transparent, that the xed stars may be seen through it.
8. The xedstarsarecompletelyunconnected_with the solar system, and are considered. by astronomers as so many suns, each the centre of a system like our own, communicating light and heat to revolving
planets or worlds.
THE HOUSE BUILDER.
WHATE'ER thou purposest to do, With an unwearied zeal pursue; To-day is thine-improve to-day, Nor trust to-morrow's distant ray.
A certain man a house would build; The place is with materials ll'd; And everything is ready there-
Is it a di cult a air?
Yes ! till you x the corner-stone; · It won't erect itself alone.
Day rolls on day, and year on year, And nothing yet is done-
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LESSON XXI.
There's always something to delay
The business to another day.
nd thus in silent waiting stood
The piles of tone and piles of wood ;­ Till Death, who in his vast af irs
Ne'er puts things o -as men in theirs-