THOUGHTS
ON A
PEBBLE.
"Honoured, therefore, be thou, thou small pebble, lying in the lane; and whenever any one looks at thee, may he think of the beautiful and noble world he lives in, and all of which it is capable."
Leigh Hunt's London Journal, p. 10.
[PART I.]
Well might our immortal Shakspeare talk of "Sermons in stones;" and Lavater exclaim, that "Every grain of sand is an immensity" and the author of 'Contemplations of Nature' remark, that "there is no picking up a pebble by the brook-side without finding all nature in connexion with it."