5. "I love to live," said an aged one,

Whose hour of life was well-nigh run :
Think you such words from him were wild?
The old man was again a child.

6. And ever thus in this fallen world,

Is the banner of hope to the breeze unfurled;
And only with a hope on high,
Can a mortal ever love to die.

I LIVE TO LOVE.

7. "I live to love," said a laughing girl,
And she playfully tossed each flaxen curl;
And she climbed on her loving father's knee,
And snatched a kiss in her childish glee.

8. "I live to love," said a maiden fair,

As she twined a wreath for her sister's hair;
They were bound by the chords of love together,
And death alone could these sisters sever.

9. "I live to love," said a gay young bride,
Her loved one standing by her side;
Her life told again what her lips had spoken,
And never was the link of affection broken.

10. "I live to love," said a mother kind,

"I would live a guide to the infant mind;"
Her precepts and example given,

Guided her children home to heaven.

11. "I shall live to love," said a fading form,

And her eye was bright and her cheek grew warm;

As she thought on the blissful world on high,
Where she would live to love and never die.

12. And ever thus in this lower world,

Should the banner of love be wide unfurled,
And when we meet in the world above,

We

may LOVE TO LIVE AND LIVE TO LOVE.

1.

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EXERCISE VI.

LIFE IS SWEET.

O, life is sweet!" said a merry child,
"And I love, I love to roam

In the meadows green, 'neath the sky serene,
O, the world is a fairy home!

There are trees hung thick with blossoms fair,

And flowers gay and bright,

There's the moon's clear ray, and the sun-lit day,
O, the world is a world of light!"

2. "O, life is sweet!" said a gallant youth,
As he conn'd the storied page;
And he pondered on the days by-gone,
And the fame of a former age.

There was hope in his bright and beaming eye,
And he longed for riper years;

He clung to life, he dared its strife,-
He felt nor dread nor fears.

"O, life is sweet!" came merrily

From the lips of a fair young bride,
And a happy smile she gave the while
To the dear one by her side.
“O, life is sweet! for we will live

Our constancy to prove;

Thy sorrow mine, my trials thine,
Our solace in our love."

4. "O, lije is sweet!" said a mother fond,
As she gazed on her helpless child,
And she closer pressed to her gladdened breast
Her babe who unconscious, smiled.
"My life shall be for thee, my child,
Pure, guiltless, as thou art;

And who shall dare my soul to tear
From the tie that forms a part?"

5. "O, life is sweet!" said an aged sire, (sl.) Whose eye was sunk and dim;

6.

His heart was bent,-his strength was spent,
Could life be sweet to hím?

O, yès; for round the old man's chair
His children's children clung;

And each dear face and warm embrace
Made life seem very young.

Thus life is sweet, from early youth

To weak, enfeebled age;

Love twines with life, through care and strife,

In every varied stage.

Though rough, perchance, the path we tread,
And dark the sky above,

in every state there's something yet,
To live for and to love.

QUESTIONS.-1. Why the falling inflection on sweet, in each paragraph? See Rule VIII., page 31. 2. What rule for the rising inflection on him, and the falling on yes, fifth stanza? 3. In what respect do the third and seventh lines of each stanza differ from the rest! 4. How, according to the notation marks, should the first and fifth stanzas be read? See page 40.

EXERCISE VII.

COMMON PEOPLE.

T. 8. ARTHUR,

1. "Are you going to call upon Mrs. Clayton and her daughters, Mrs. Márygold?" asked a neighbor, alluding to a family that had just moved into Sycamore Row.

2. "No, indeed, Mrs. Lemmington, that I am not. I don't visit everybody."

3. "I thought the Claytons were a very respectable family," remarked Mrs. Lemmington.

4. "Respectable! Everybody is getting respectable nowa-days. If they are respectable, it is very lately they have become so. What is Mr. Clayton, I wonder, but a schoolmaster! It's too bad that such people will come crowding themselves into genteel neighborhoods. The time was, when to live in Sycamore Row was guarantee enough for any one; but now, all kinds of people have come into it."

5. "I have never met Mrs. Clayton," remarked Mrs. Lemmington; "but I have been told that she is a most estimable woman, and that her daughters have been educated with great care. Indeed, they are represented as being highly ac complished girls."

6. "Well, I don't care what they are represented to be. I'm not going to keep company with a schoolmaster's wife and daughters; that's certain.

7. "Is there anything disgraceful in keeping a school?"

8. "No; nor in making shoes, either. But then, that's no reason why I should keep company with my shoemaker's wife; is it? Let common people associate together,—that's my doctrine."

9. "But what do you mean by commom people, Mrs. Márygold ?"

10. "Why, I mean common people. who have not come of a respectable family.

Poor people. People
That's what I mean."

11. "I am not sure that I comprehend your explanation much better than I do your classification. If you mean, as you say, poor people, your objection will not apply with full force to the Claytons; for they are now in tolerably easy cir cumstances. As to the family of Mr. Clayton, I believe his father was a man of integrity, though not rich. And Mrs. Clayton's family I know to be without reproach of any kind." are common people for all that," perse"Wasn't old Clayton a mere petty And was n't Mrs. Clayton's father a

12. "And yet they vered Mrs. Marygold. dealer in small wares. mechanic ?"

13. "Perhaps, if some of us were to go back a generation or two, we might trace out an ancestor who held no higher place in society," Mrs. Lemmington remarked quietly. "I have no doubt that I should."

14. "I have no fears of that kind," replied Mrs. Marygold, in an exulting tone. "I shall never blush when my pedigree is traced."

15. "Nor I either, I hope. Still, I should not wonder, if some one of my ancestors had disgraced himself; for there are but few families that are not cursed with a spotted sheep. But I have nothing to do with that, and ask only to be judged by what I am not by what my progenitors have been."

16. "A standard that few will respect, let me tell you." 17. "A standard that far the largest portion of society will regard as the true one, I hope,” replied Mrs. Lemmington. "But surely, you do not intend refusing to call upon the Claytons for the reasons you have assigned, Mrs. Márygold?"

18. "Certainly I do. They are nothing but common people, and therefore beneath me. I shall not stoop to associate with ther."

19, "I think that I will call upon them. In fact, my object in dropping in this morning, was to see, if you would not accompany me," said Mrs. Lemmington.

20. "Indeed, I will not, and for the reasons I have given. They are only common people. You will be stooping."