eet,
In ---- colours seen.

God made the ---- that shines so bright,
And gladdens all I see;
It comes to give us ---- and light,
How ---- should we be!

God made the ---- bird to fly,
How ---- has she sung;
And though she ---- so very high,
She won't ---- her young.

God made the ---- to give nice milk,
The horse for ---- to use;
I'll treat them ---- for his sake,
Nor dare his gifts abuse.

God made the ---- for my drink,
God made the ---- to swim,
God made the ---- to bear nice fruit,
Which does my ---- so nicely suit;
O how should I ---- him!

"O Lord, how manifest are thy works; in wisdom hast thou made them
all!"--Psalm civ. 24.

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I subjoin, as an exercise for teachers themselves, the following hymn,
as one calculated to induce reflections on the scenes of nature, and
direct the mind to that Being who is the Source of all excellence!

1
Hast ---- beheld ---- glorious
Through all ---- skies his circuit run,
At rising morn, ---- closing day,
And when he beam'd his noontide

2
Say, didst ---- e'er attentive
The evening cloud, ---- morning dew?
Or, after ----, the watery bow
Rise in the ---- a beauteous ----?

3
When darkness had o'erspread the ----
Hast thou e'er seen the ---- arise,
And with a mild and placid ----
Shed lustre o'er the face of night?

4
Hast ---- e'er wander'd o'er the plain,
And view'd the fields and waving ----,
The flowery mead, ---- leafy grove,
Where all ---- harmony ---- love.

5
Hast thou e'er trod the sandy ----
And ---- the restless ---- roar,
When roused by some tremendous ----
It's billows rose ---- dreadful form?

Hast thou beheld the ---- stream
Thro' nights dark gloom, ---- sudden gleam,
While the bellowing thunder's ----
Roll'd rattling ---- the heaven's profound?

7
Hast thou e'er ---- the cutting gale,
The sleeting shower, ---- the biting hail;
Beheld ---- snow o'erspread the
The water bound ---- icy chains?

8
Hast thou the various beings ----
That sport ---- the valley green,
That ---- warble on the spray,
Or wanton in the sunny ----?

9
That shoot along ---- briny deep,
Or ---- ground their dwellings keep;
That thro' the ---- forest range,
Or frightful wilds ---- deserts strange?

10
Hast ---- the wondrous scenes survey'd
That all around thee ---- displa