Then melts into the spring: soft spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south. Recalls the first. [fades. All, to reflourish, As in a wheel, all sinks, to re-ascend. Emblems of man, who passes, not expires. With this minute distinction, em blems just, Nature revolves, but man advances both Eternal; that a circle, this a line. That gravitates, this soars. The aspiring soul, Ardent and tremulous, like flame, ascends; Zeal and humility, her wings to heaven. The world of matter, with its various forms, All dies into new life. Life born from death Rolls the vast mass, and shall for ever roll. No single atom, once in being, lost. CHEERFULNESS IN MISFORTUNE. The moist of human frame the sun NONE are unhappy: all have cause to exhales; Winds scatter, through the mighty void, the dry; Earth repossesses part of what she |