. Love's meinie : lectures on Greek and English birds, given before the University of Oxford . , scarcely able togather from all I can find told of her enough to explain80 much as the unfolding of her wings, I can tell younothing of her life—nothing of her journeying: I cannotlearn how she builds, nor how^ she chooses the placeof her wandering, nor how she traces the path of herreturn. Eemaining thus blind and careless to the true ministries of the humble creature whom God has really4 74 sent to serve us, we in our pride, tliinkiiig ourselves sur-rounded by the pursuivants of the sky, can yet
. Love's meinie : lectures on Greek and English birds, given before the University of Oxford . , scarcely able togather from all I can find told of her enough to explain80 much as the unfolding of her wings, I can tell younothing of her life—nothing of her journeying: I cannotlearn how she builds, nor how^ she chooses the placeof her wandering, nor how she traces the path of herreturn. Eemaining thus blind and careless to the true ministries of the humble creature whom God has really4 74 sent to serve us, we in our pride, tliinkiiig ourselves sur-rounded by the pursuivants of the sky, can yet only in-vest them with majesty by giving them the calm of thebirds motion, and shade of the birds plume:—and afterall, it is well for us, if, when even for Gods best mercies,and in His temples marble-built, we think that, withangels and archangels, and all the company of Heaven,we laud and mao^nifv His o^lorious name—well for us,if our attempt be not only an insult, and His ears openrather to the inarticulate and unintended praise, of theSwallow, twittering from her straw-built
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