To gather from the unconsidered shingle mottled starlike agates, Full of unstoried flowers in the bubbling bloom-chalcedony: Or gay and curious shells, fretted with microscopic carving, Corallines, and fresh seaweeds, spreading forth their delicate branches. It is an admirable lore, to learn the cause in the change, To study the chemistry of Nature, her grand, but simple secrets, To search out all her wonders, to track the resources of her skill, To note her kind compensations, her unobtrusive excellence. In all it is wise happiness to see the well-ordained laws of Jehovah, The harmony that filleth all His mind, the justice that tempereth His bounty, The wonderful all-prevalent analogy that testifieth one Creator, The broad arrow of the Great King, carved on all the stores of His arsenal. But beware, O worshipper of God, thou forget not Him in His dealings, Though the bright emanations of His power hide Him in created glory; For if, on the sea of knowledge, thou regardest not the pole-star of religion, Thy bark will miss her port, and run upon the sand-bar of folly: And if, enamoured of the means, thou considerest not the scope to which they tend, Wherein art thou wiser than the child, that is pleased with toys and baubles? Verily, a trifling scholar, thou heedest but the letter of instruction: For, as motive is spirit unto action, as memory endeareth place, As the sun doth fertilize the earth, as affection quickeneth the heart, So is the remembrance of God in the varied wonders of creation.