life in nature.

5. CLOUDED NOONS. From the noons, which are still clouded.

6. PROPER. Own.

9. SPIRE. Flowering spikes.

10. SPEEDWELL. "The Germander Speedwell is a slender, wiry plant, whose
stem sometimes creeps along the surface of the ground before it grows
upwards. The flowers have four small petals of the brightest blue, and
within the flower at the foot of the petals is a small white circle, with
a little white eye looking up. Two stamens with crimson heads rise from
this white circle, and in the very centre of the flower there is a tiny
green seed-vessel, with a spike coming out of the top."--_C. B. Smith_.

12. LABURNUMS.

"And all the gold from each laburnum chain
Drops to the grass." --_To Mary Boyle_.


LXXXVI

"I can open my being also to the reviving influences of Nature--as on a
certain evening, balmy and glorious after the rain, when the breeze
seemed as if it might breathe new life, and waft me across the seas away
from the land of doubt and death to some far off sphere of more than
earthly peace,"--_Arthur W. Robinson_.