Osgood's American fifth reader : for schools and families by Osgood Lucius

Author:Osgood, Lucius
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Readers (Elementary), Recitations
Publisher: Pittsburgh : A.H. English & Co.
Published: 1872-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

petalsV And it nodded to the little birds that were swira-mins: in the skv^; and all of them that had silver-lined wings eanie^; and birds in blaek\ and gray\ and qnakcr bro\vn\ came^; and the querulous blue bird\ and the eourte-sying yellow bird\ eanie'; and eaeh sung a native air at the coronation of that daisy'.

5. Everything that sung or shone upon that wee modest flower' was a member of that social circle^ and conspired to its harmony', and added to its music\ Heaven\ earth\ sky\ and sea', were its comjianions^; the sun and stars walked hand in hand with it as kindly as if they never saw another daisy' or had another eompanion\ The sober ocean, even the distant Pacific, laded the fleet-winged clouds with SMcet-savored dews to brighten its countenance when the sun appeared.

6. Such was the social circle which you broke up when you put forth your hand to crush the little canny thing " ainaiuj tJie stoure." Such were the companions you severed and the harmony you interrupted. This little social system was one of the least of those concentric circles, which go on increasing in diameter until the last sweeps around the whole universe, and completes the infinite series of harmonies, which was celebrated by the morning stars on the birthday of creation.

7. Now, all the members of this social circle were necessary to the well being of that daisy. It needed such companions. It needed the sunbeam', the dew drop', and the i-ain drop', and the soft summer breeze', to develop its character', and unfold its beauties\ It necdwl the morning song of the birds, and the chirping lay of the meadow stream, to keej) time by, as it waved its silver diadem to the twittering swallow's wing.

8. If, then', my young friends', our heavenly Father has providcil such companions and social influences for the lily or the daisv', what provision has he not made for the society of hid children ! In the first place, his relation to them

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