I'D OFFER THEE THIS HEART. COMPOSED BY VALENTINE DISTER. Presented by LEE & WALKER, 188 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 6 take in, and enjoy the air they breathe.' And he SUMMER is here, and her whole world of wealth | course, and then, if ever, taste the nourishment they is spread out before us in prodigal array. "The woods and groves have darkened and thickened into one impervious mass of sober, uniform green; and having, for a while, ceased to exercise the more active functions of the Spring, are resting from their labors in that state of 'wise passiveness' which we, in virtue of our infinitely greater wisdom, know so little how to enjoy. In Winter the trees may be supposed to sleep in a state of insensible inactivity, and in Spring to be laboring with the flood of new life that is pressing through their veins, and forcing them to perform the offices attached to their existence. But in Summer, having reached the middle term of their annual life, they pause in their appointed The animal creation seem oppressed with languor On the grassy bank |