BOYS OF THE BIBLE. 315

versed in the truths of the Bible. He contrasts her condi-
tion with that of a brilliant French philosopher who would
not have God to reign over him, and scorned the Bible as
a series of cunningly devised fables.

Let the boys who read this book, study this beautiful
poetic picture, and engrave the lesson it teaches deep in
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“Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door,
Pillow and bobbins all her little store;
Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay,
Shuffling her threads about the live-long day,
Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night
Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light;
She, by her humble sphere, by nature fit,

Has little understanding, and‘no wit,

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,
A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew;
And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes,
Her title to a treasure in the skies!

“Oh, happy peasant! Oh, unhappy Bard!
His the mere tinsel, her’s the rich reward;
He praised, perhaps, for ages yet to come,
She never heard of half a mile from home;
He lost in errors his vain heart prefers,
She safe in the simplicity of hers!”