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(4.) MAN A MICROCOSM.

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majestic mountain, far transcended every previous picture or experience. For a while I dwelt contented on this gorgeous mountain-home--from which I could see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, and significance, of every vale below, through which I passed. It was like standing on a solid rock by the sea-side, away from turmoil and danger, beholding ships as they rise and fall and struggle with the storm. For thus it was that, far down the hills, and everywhere in the vales below, I could see my fellow-men, too proud to be taught, jumping from gorge to cliff, and marring their personal welfare at every step, vainly striving to reach the Highest and the Best by methods impossible to prove advantageous.-From the "Magic Staff: An Autobiography of Andrew Jackson Davis."

KEY.-MAN A MICROCOSM.

Man is all symmetry;

Full of proportions, one limb to another,
And to all the world besides;

Each part may call the farthest brother,
For head and foot hath private amity,
And both with moods and tides.

Nothing hath got so far

But man hath caught and kept it as his prey;
His eyes dismount the highest star,

He is in little all the sphere.

Herbs gladly cure his flesh because that they
Find their acquaintance there.

For us the winds do blow,

The earth doth rest, heavens move, and fountains flow.
Nothing we see but means our good,

As our delight or as our treasure;

The whole is either the cupboard of food

Or cabinet of pleasure.

The stars lead us to bed;

Night draws the curtain which the sun withdraws,

Music and light attend our head.

All things unto our flesh are kind

In their descent and being; to our mind,

In their ascent and cause.

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ao t-tnd hm.

Geo Hrbrt

More servants wait on man

Than he'll take notice of. In every path
He treads down that which doth befriend him
When sickness makes him pale and wan.

O! mighty love! Man is one world and hath

Another to attend him.

George Herbert

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