Mr. M‘Creery first printed this little effusion of his just and vigorous mind on a small slip, one of which he gave at the time to the editor of the Every-Day Book, who if he has not like
——— the little busy bee
Improved each shining hour,
is not therefore less able to determine the value of those that are gone for ever; nor therefore less anxious to secure each that may fall to him; nor less qualified to enjoin on his youthful readers the importance of this truth, “that time once gone, ne’er comes again.” He would bid them remember, in the conscience-burning words of one of our poets, that—
“Time is the stuff that life is made of.”
FLORAL DIRECTORY.
Winter Cherry. Physalis.
Dedicated to St. Marcian.
[379] Brady’s Clavis Calendaria.