ARGUMENT of the SIXTH BOOK. Bells at a distance.-Their effect.-A fine noon in winter. -A sheltered walk.-Meditation better than books. Our familiarity with the course of nature makes it appear lefs wonderful than it is.-The transformation that fpring effects in a fhrubbery defcribed.-A mistake concerning the course of nature corrected.—God maintains it by an unremitted act. The amusements fashionable at this hour of the day reproved.—Animals kappy, a delightful fight. mals.—That it is a great crime proved from scripture. -That proof illuftrated by a tale.-A line drawn between the lawful and unlawful destruction of them. -Their good and useful properties infifted on.-Apology for the encomiums bestowed by the author on animals.-Inftances of man's extravagant praife of man.The groans of the creation fhall have an end.-A view taken of the restoration of all things. An Invocation Origin of cruelty to ani and an Invitation of him who shall bring it to pass. - The retired man vindicated from the charge of uselessness. Conclufion. THERE is in fouls a fympathy with sounds, Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. In cadence sweet! now dying all away, With easy force it opens all the cells Where Where mem'ry flept. Wherever I have heard And with it all its pleasures and its pains. That in a few fhort moments I retrace. (As in a map the voyager his courfe) The windings of my way through many years. It feem'd not always fhort; the rugged path, Mov'd many a figh at its difheart'ning length. How readily we wifh time spent revok'd, We mifs'd that happinefs we might have found! When |