. The book of similitudes: . story of the Alpine sheep is notinappropriate to the foregoing subject. It wasaddressed to a friend by the late Mrs. Lowell, after SIMILITUDES. 249 the death of a child. It relates to the method ofthe shepherd to lead his flock to a new and betterpasture: They in the valleys sheltering care, Soon crop the meadows tender prime, And when the sod grows brown and bare, The shepherd tries to make them climb To airy shelves of pasture green, That hang along the mountains side, Where grass and flowers together lean, And down through mist the sunbeams glide. But nought can
. The book of similitudes: . story of the Alpine sheep is notinappropriate to the foregoing subject. It wasaddressed to a friend by the late Mrs. Lowell, after SIMILITUDES. 249 the death of a child. It relates to the method ofthe shepherd to lead his flock to a new and betterpasture: They in the valleys sheltering care, Soon crop the meadows tender prime, And when the sod grows brown and bare, The shepherd tries to make them climb To airy shelves of pasture green, That hang along the mountains side, Where grass and flowers together lean, And down through mist the sunbeams glide. But nought can tempt the timid things The steep and rugged path to try,Though sweet the shepherd calls and sings, And seared below the pastures lie. Till in his arms his lambs he takes, Along the dizzy verge to go,Then heedless of the rifts and breaks, They follow on oer rock and snow. And in those pastures, lifted fair,More dewy-soft than lowland mead, The shepherd drops his tender care,And sheep and lambs together feed. 250 THE BOOK OF. For they that are. after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh—but theythey that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. Rom. viii. 5. In theicorld to coine, life everlasting. Luke xviii. 30. THE THREE LIVES. See here the wretch, low groveling in the mire,Companion of the filthy—no desireBeyond the present lifts his soul from earth ;He knows no joys, save those of meanest birth ;The poison cup he drinks, and deeper rollThe tides of sin and folly oer his soul:The Life of Nature thus appears to view,Herding with swine partakes their groveling too;But see, redeemed, a wondrous change appears,His eyes are full of penitential tears; SIMILITUDES. 251 The bow of promise shines before his eyes, His arms are lifted toward the smiling skies. The dove of peace, with olive branch, behold, And near, the shepherd wilh his peaceful fold. Sweet emblems these, in which the soul may trace, New life begun below, the Life cf Grace. See higher still, beside the h
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