Acacia John Bunyan

A Book for Boys and Girls
or
Temporal Things Spritualized.


By J O H N.B U N Y A N.

Licensed and entered according to order.


L O N D O N,
Printed for, and sold by, R. Tookey,
at his Printing House in St. Christopher's Court,
in Threadneedle Street, behind the Royal Exchange, 1701.

First published thirteen years after John Bunyan's death.



X.

UPON THE SWALLOW.

This pretty bird, O! how she flies and sings,
[20]
But could she do so if she had not wings?
Her wings bespeak my faith, her songs my peace;
When I believe and sing my doubtings cease.



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[20] The swallow is remarkably swift in flight; 'their note is
a slight twittering, which they seldom if ever exert but upon
the wing.'—Goldsmith's Natural History.—Ed.