ARGUMENT OF THE SIXTH BOOK. Bells at a distance.-Their effect.-A fine noon in winter.-A fheltered walk.-Meditation better than books. Our familiarity with the course of nature makes it appear lefs wonderful than it is.-The transformation that spring effects in a fhrubbery defcribed. A mistake concerning the course of nature corrected.-Gcd maintains it by an unremitted act. -The amufements fashionable at this hour of the day reproved. Animals happy, a delightful fight.— Origin of cruelty to animals.-That it is a great crime proved from fcripture.-That proof illuftrated by a tale.-A line drawn between the lawful and unlawful deftruction of them.-Their good and useful properties infifted on.—Apology for the encomiums bestowed by the author on animals.-Inftances of man's extravagant praife of man.-The groans of the creation fhall have an end.-A view taken of the restoration of all things.-An invocation and an invitation of him who fhall bring it to pass.-The retired man vindicated from the charge of ufeleffness.-Conclufion. THE TAS K. BOOK VI. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON. THERE is in fouls a fympathy with founds; Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. In cadence fweet, now dying all away, Where mem'ry flept. Wherever I have heard A kindred melody, the scene recurs, And with it all its pleasures and its pains. That in a few fhort moments I retrace It feem'd not always fhort; the rugged path, |