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 BOOK THE NINTH.

DISCOURSE OF THE WANDERER, AND AN EVENING VISIT TO THE LAKE.

every Form of Being is assigned,"

Thus calmly spake the venerable Sage,

"An active principle:—howe'er removed

From sense and observation, it subsists

In all things, in all natures, in the stars

Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds,

In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone

That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks,

The moving waters, and the invisible air.