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Title: The first (-fifth) reader of the school and family series
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Willson, Marcius, 1813-1905
Subjects: Readers
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ds ofbenevolence. Yet man, vain man, pretends to look down onthe myriads of beings equally insignificant in appearance, be-cause he has not yet discovered the great ofiices which theyhold, the duties which they fulfill in the great order of na-ture. LESSON IV. THE COKAL INSECT.* (The representations here given are the united stony cells or habitations of the coral-buildinij zoophytes, each species having its own peculiar structure. Every minute por-tion of this calcareous or lime rock is more or less surrounded by a soft animal substance(the zoophyte), capable of expanding itself, but otherwise fixed to its habitation; yet, whenalarmed, it has the power of contracting itself almost entirely into the cells and hollowsof the hard coral. These soft parts become, when taken from the sea, nothing more inappearance than a brown slime spread over the stony nucleus. Yet these jelly-like ani-mals are the builders of the coral reefs. See Seventh Reader for a description of this classof animals)
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< OMMON r<)EAL-i,ijiM)iNG ZooPiHTLS. -1. Miand)iim labiirinthica. 2. Astrea dijjsacea.3. Mfif(rfpora vnmeata. A. Pontes clavaua. 5. Carijrqihyllia fastigiala. 6. Oculinahirtella. 1. Toil on! toil on! ye ephemeral train, Who bnild in the tossing and treacherous main; Toil on—for the wisdom of man ye mock, With your sand-based structures and domes of rock; Your columns the fathomless fountains lave, And your arches spring up to the crested wave; Yere a puny race thus to boldly rear A fabric so vast in a realm so drear. 2. Ye bind the deep with your secret zone,The ocean is sealed, and the surge a stone;Fresh wreaths from the coral pavement spring,Like the terraced pride of Assyrias king; • The little coral-building animal, or polyp, was long ago called the coral infect, a termquite improper, but one that U still retained in popular use. S72 WIIiLSON 8 FIFTH KBADKK. i-AKT YllL The turf looks green where the breakers rolled;Oer the whirlpool ripens the rind of gold ;The sea-snat

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