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Still moving, ever new; for former Things
"Are fet afide, like abdicated Kings,

"And ev'ry Moment alters what is done,
"And innovates fome Act, till then unknown."
True is the Verfe, and claims our utmost Praife,
Nor worse are thefe,-for thefe are Ovid's Lays.

OBSERVATIONS.

"There with juft Skill, her future Work defign's,
"Revolves the Plan, and draws the deftin'd Lines
"Each Part the labours with repeated Pain,
"And often walks the Circle of her Reign:
"Compact, yet fine, the curious Net- work weaves,
"And forms her dark Retreat behind the Leaves.
*On Prey intent, in Ambuscade she lies,
"Till 'tangled in her Snare, fhe rushes on thePrize."

Steps he into the Garden, what a Scene of Beauty and Contrivance appears around in every Herb and Flower! what an aftonishing Variety, how delicious to the Tafte are fome, how charming to the Eye are others. Here is a Subject not too high for the lowest Mechanic, nor too mean for the Contemplation of the higheft Genius, while the wondering Mind is aftonished to fee fo fmall a Spot fhould contain fo many Kinds, fo very different from each other in Colour, Shape, and Qualit es; all growing upon the fame Earth, and nourished with the fame Air. And here from Flower to Flower flits the in duftrious Bee. What human Art could perform the furprising Works of this curious Being; what Art, Wisdom and Contrivance, appears through the whole. Who taught this little Creature that there will a Time come when the Gardens, Fields, and Groves, fhall be all difmantled, and to labour inceffantly to collect and lay up a copious Maga. zine against that dreary Day. The Reverend Dr. Watts, in his Hymns for Children, has fo well de fcribed the Industry and Sagacity of this little Creature in the following Lines, that methinks i is held forth as a Pattern to all Ages and Degrees of Mankind.

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How does the little bufy Bee
Improve each fhining Hour,
And gather Honey all the Day

From ev'ry op'ning Flower.
How fkilfully the builds her Cell,

How neat the spreads her Wax;
And labours hard to ftore it well

With the sweet Food the makes,

And before we take up another Subject, let us contemplate a while the wonderful Wifdom of this furprizing Creature in all its Actions, and confider by what Kind of Intelligence it arrived at fuch ftriking Sagacity.

"Tell us, ye Studious, who pretend to fee
"Far into Nature's Bofom, whence the Bee
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"Through tractlefs Paths, and an Abyss of Air.
"Whence the avoids the flimy Marsh,and knows
"The fertile Hills, where fweeter Herbage grows,
"And Honey-making Flowers their op'ning
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"How from the thicken'd Mifts, and fetting Sun,
"Finds the the Labour of the Day is done?
"Who taught her against Winds and Rains to
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"To bring her Burden to the certain Hive,
"And through the liquid Fields again to pafs,
"Duteous, and heark ping to the founding Brafs?

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is the Book of Knowledge, and this the Science fatisfactory to every Senfe. In the grand Volume of Nature every Page is filled with the wonderful and the inftructive. Leifure in this delightful Purfuit goes hand in hand with Learning, and like true Lovers, The more we look, the more we love

Vita bene acta efficit mortem jucundam,' and fure no Life can be spent to better Purpofe, than in the Study of the Divine Being, as he stands manifefted in his Works. This is that Spring,

"Where fhallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, "But drinking deeply fobers us again."

With Tranquility and Wonder thus pafs the Days of the contemplative Man. The meaneft Objects afford Matter of Surprize when duly confidered, nor does even the bufy Ant efcape his Notice. Who (fays he) inform'd that little Infect that a long Winter will ere long approach, and must be provided for? Sees he not whole Acres of watry Corn fufficient to fupply him in that uncomfortable Seafon? Who told him that the Whole would foon be houfed, and out of his Reach; and bade him employ fo many laborious Days and fleeplefs Nights during the Seafon of Harveft, in order to provide for a Winter's Subfiftence ?-Why, he alone who provided him with Inftruments fixed to his Head fufficient to draw Grains of Corn thrice his own Weight, and drag them backward to his Den. What Architect, except the grand Architect of the Universe, could teach him fo to contrive under the Surface of the Earth, the grand Repofitory of the whole Community, the feparate Cham52 bers, the communicating Galleries; or inform them how deep to dig, fo that neither the penetrating Snow, nor the beating Showers fhall have Power

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