Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1831-11-18

NV censer's BREATH the mountain airs;
And silent thoughts, my only prayers.
Ir is bountiful creation 1t is rich and
fall and OVERLOOKING, with the beneGcence of
its Maker. Less than all its plentitude and
beauty might have suffced for our wants; butt
less would not suffice to set forth his inexpres-
siaie goodness. When he had founded the
earth, and established the mountains, and set
up the great frame of nature. and implanted
the germ of every useful production, it might
have been enough for the necessities of man,
but it was not enough for the generous kind
ne-s Of his Maker; and he came forth again:
he came forth with an added work, and scat
ter !, from an unsparing hand, the bounties
and Heights of every cline and season. Va.
riety and exuberance poured their stores into
the lap of nature. and it was full. The earth
opened its fertile bosom, and sent forth its How
ers and fruits to crafty the taste; the world
rung with the voice of melody to regale the
car; and hues of light were spread over the
verdant earth. and the glowing clouds OF even
tide, and the glorious expanse OF heaven. to
delight the eye Of man. And upon this thea
tire. overspread with more than the magnif-
Cence of eastern palaces. and bent ath the shi-
ming canopy Of heaven, there went forth life,
buoyant and srrung and gifted, TO enjoy 1t to
the full: life with its untiring apd matchless
energies life with its light sportings of pleas
IRE, and its secret workings of delight; life, not
bare and barren, an abstract existence, but
clothed with senses, endowed with sensibiity,
connected by magic ties OF ASSOCIATION with
the objects around it; touched with rapture at
the visions that pass before it, and kindling
with irrepressible aspirations after brighter VII
sions vet to be revealed; life, full as nature is,
of heavenly gifts; full of glorious capacities,
of dear affections, and unbounded hopes, and
thus tending, with manifest direction. to a
higher and more enduring state OF being.
But let us descend to humber theatre oil
existence, yet equally filed with proofs of the
divine GOODNESS. When we go abroad from
our dwelling, in one of the bright days OF sum
mer. what scene is presented before us! This
TOO. is filed with life, infinitely diversified
changing, active, intense life and pleasure. l
&c. I repeat. a crowded scene. 1t seems as !
IL were designed, that everything which couh
live, should have its happy hours OF being
'Tbe snot that will not admit one kind OF ex
istence, is supplied with another In ever
possible variety Of situation, from the sPlre o
grass TO the lofty tree, from the plain to tn
pnountain-top, on the hillside and IN the dee
forest, in the flashing waters and the buoyar
air. there are abodes, numberless, various, vas
minute, for every living thing. The very rock
are penetrated by eager claimants for their ar
no;nted spaces; the steep and barren precip
res give sure footing to the wild goat; the das
cayerns echo TO the footsteps OF living sfe'
lures.
Descend we to still minutcr survey, aide
by the microscope, and what DOVE ind! Ever
ciod of earth, every drop of water, every mo
sci of delicious fruit, is animated life 1t we
scarcely stretch of Imagination to conceive
may vet be proved. that the very sunbeaV
have life. Let not this discovery OF mode
philosophy. so full of the wonders OF div,
beneGcence, disgust us. Well, indeed II
1man has not microscopic eye;' and TOR
piainer reason than that no reason, that IN
Is not a fly.' Well is it. and an added pre-
of goodness, that the impressions OF sense
an overmatch for the teachings of philosopl
BUT lei ii not offend us, that the air we breat
andsthe dust we tread upon, TEEN with act
and glad existence.
II Is bountful creation; and bounty
mands acknowledgment; but its very siien
as to all demands upon our gratitude, seems
me more affecting, than any articulate voice
exhortation. If cloven tongues OF hire,
upon every bush and forest Dough; IL audi
voices were borne upon every breeze sayI
GIVE thanks! give thanks' however st"r''