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Say, did these finders delve the mine.
Or with llit; envied rubies shine ?
To hew the rock or wear a ;:cm
Can little now avail to them.
But ii the pnge of Truth the;1, sought.
Or comfort to the mourner brought,
These hands a richer meed shall claim
Than f ill that wait on Wealth a it :’. hhune.

Avails it whether hare or shod
These feet the paths of duty trod .J
If from the bowers of L aw they fled,
To sedc Affliction's humble shed;
If Grandeur's guilty bribe they spurned,
Anri home to Virtue's cot returned,—
These feet with an't’el wings shall vie,
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And tread the ealacc of the sky !

THE MAJESTY OP TRIFLES.

N O T H IN G , in fact, is small, a: id any one who is a fleeted by the
[i re I o u j l d pe n e i. r ati ons o f n at u r e i s a iva re of this the t. A id 10 u g h
no .absolute satisfaction is granted to philosophy, and though it
can no more ei reuni scribe the cause than limit the effect, the eontem-
plator falls into unfathomable ecstasy when he watched all those
decompositions of force which result in a beauteous unity. Everything
labors for everything; algebra is applied to the douds, the imn liation
of the planet benefits the rose, and no thinker wonkJ dare to say that
the pei'fumc of the hawthorn is usele-s to the constellations.
Who can ealeulate Lhe passage of a molecule? Who among us
knows whether the creations of worlds arc rot. determined by the fall
of grain* of sand ? W ho is acquainted with the reciprocal ebb and
(low of the itif.iiitcly great nnri the infinitely lit:!: ? A maggot is ol
importance, the little is great and the great, at tie, all is in a s;ate