BY A

"COUNTRY PARSON'S" DAUGHTER.

-6.

"Needs no show of mountain hoary,
Winding shore, or deepening glen,
Where the landscape in its glory,
Teaches truth to wandering men.
Give true hearts but earth and sky,
And some flowers to bloom and die;
Homely scenes and simple views

Lowly thoughts may best infuse."

KEBLE'S CHRISTIAN YEAR.

SECOND SERIES.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY

1832.

203.

LONDON:

IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.

то

ALL WHO HAVE BEEN KINDLY INTERESTED

IN THE FIRST,

THIS SECOND SERIES

OF

SCENES IN OUR PARISH,

IS RESPECTFULLY AND GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED.

One Page in my Life, recorded on the 31st of

INTRODUCTION

TO THE SECOND SERIES.

Loves, friendships, hopes, and dear remembrances,
The kind embracings of the heart, and hours
Of happy thought, and smiles coming to tears-
These are the rays that wander through the gloom
Of mortal life; wells of the wilderness.

POLLOK.

I AM come to introduce myself to you again, gentle friend, but not now as a stranger. You have been interested in the scenes through which I have already led you-and you are willing to look upon them once more. Our society will not be more polished, nor our walks more romantic than they were before; but you were pleased because you saw nature, and nature you shall see still. During the year that has past since we were last together, some events have occurred in my little circle worth my relating to you. I have met with new proofs of the wakefulness of God's Providence-new reasons for knowing that blessed are they that trust in him—firmer