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Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,
Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind?

23. On some fond breast the parting soul relies;
Some pious drops the closing eye requires;
Even from the tomb the voice of Nature cries,
Even in our ashes live their wonted fires.

24. For thee, who, mindful of the unhonored dead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate, If chance, by lonely contemplation led,

Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate;

25. Haply some hoary-headed swain may say,
"Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn,
Brushing with hasty step the dews away,

To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.

26. "There at the foot of yonder nodding beech,
That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high,
His listless length at noontide would he stretch,
And pore upon the brook that bubbles by.

27. "Hard by yon wood, now smiling, as in scorn,
Mutt'ring his wayward fancies he would rove:
Now drooping, woeful, wan, like one forlorn,

Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love.

28 One morn I missed him on the accustomed hill, Along the heath, and near his fav'rite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill,

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Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood, was he.

29 The next, with dirges due, in sad array,

Slow through the churchyard-path we saw him borne; Approach and read (for thou canʼst read) the lay,

Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn."

THE EPITAPH.

30. Here rests his head upon the lap of earth,
A youth, to Fortune and to Fame unknown;
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy marked him for her own.

31. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere:
Heaven did a recompense as largely send :
gave to misery all he had -a tear,

He

He gained from Heaven ('t was all he wished) a friend.

32. No further seek his merits to disclose,

Or draw his frailties from their dread abode; (There they, alike, in trembling hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God.

QUESTIONS.-1. What pause after lead, ninth stanza? See page 43 2. Are the questions in the eleventh stanza direct or indirect?

EXERCISE XC.

1. A-OROP-O-LIS, the highest part of a city; the citadel; especially, that of ancient Athens.

2. MAR'-A-THON, a village of Attica, in ancient Greece, celebrated as the spot whereon a great victory was gained by Miltiades over the Persians, B. C. 490.

3. PLA'-TÆ-A, a town of Boeotia, in ancient Greece, rendered famous by a victory gained there by the Greeks over the Persians under Mardonius, B. C. 479.

4. MOR-GAR'-TEN, a mountain on the eastern border of the lak Egeri, in Switzerland, is celebrated for a victory gained there in 1315, over Leopold, the Arch-duke of Austria.

o. Lat'-PEN, the name of a place in Switzerland, famous for a vietory achieved there in 1339, by the citizens of Bern, over the nobles who had undertaken to destroy their city.

6. MAN'-LI-US, and (7) SCIP'-1-0 AF-RI-CA'-NUS, two noble Romans, the Grmer celebrated for preserving the Capitol, when nearly taken by

the Gauls; the latter, for conquering the Carthaginians under their great leader, Hannibal, who had once well-nigh reduced Rome itself to subjection.

NATIONAL MONUMENTS.

ALISON.

1. It is in vain, that a nation may be encircled with for tresses, or defended by mountains, or begirt by the ocean; to real security is to be found in the spirit and the valor of ts people. The army which enters the field in the conv ction, that it is to conquer, has already gained the day. The people who recollect with pride the achievements of their forefathers, will not prove unworthy of them in the field of battle.

2. The remembrance of their heroic actions preserved the independence of the Swiss republics, amidst the powerful empires by which they were surrounded; and the glory of her armies, joined to the terror of her name, upheld the Roman empire for centuries after the warlike spirit of the people was extinct. It is this which constitutes the strength and multiplies the triumphs of veteran soldiers, and it is this which renders the qualities of military valor and prowess hereditary in a nation.

3. Every people, accordingly, whose achievements are memorable in past history, have felt the influence of these national recollections, and received them as the most valuable inheritance from their forefathers. The statesmen of Athens, when they wished to rouse that fickle people to any great or heroic action, reminded them of the national glory of their ancestors, and pointed to the Acropolis,' crowned with the monuments of their valor. Demosthenes, in the most heartstirring apostrophe of antiquity, invoked the shades of those who died at Marathon' and Platea to sanctify the cause in which they were to be engaged.

4. The Swiss peasants, for five hundred years after the es tablishment of their independence, assembled on the fields of Morgarten1 and Laupen, and spread garlands over the grave of the fallen warriors, and prayed for the souls of those who

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had died for their country's freedom. The Romans attached a superstitious reverence to the rock of the Capitol, and loaded its temples with the spoils of the world, and looked back, with a mixture of veneration and pride, to the strug. gles which it had witnessed, and the triumphs which it had

won.

5. So long as Manlius remained in sight of the Capitol, his enemies found it impossible to obtain a conviction of the charges against him. When Scipio Africanus' was accused by a faction in the forum, in place of answering the charge, he turned to the Capitol, and invited the people to accompany him to the temple of Jupiter, and return thanks for the defeat of the Carthaginians. Such was the influence of local associations on that severe people; and so natural is it for the human mind to embody its recollections in some external object, and so important an effect are these recollections fitted to have, when they are perpetually brought back to the public mind by the sight of the objects to which they have been attached.

6. The erection of a national monument, on a scale suited to the greatness of the events it is intended to commemorate, seems better calculated than any other measure to perpetuate the spirit which the events of our times have awakened in this country. It will force itself on the observation of the most thoughtless, and recall the recollection of danger and glory, during the slumber of peaceful life.

7. Thousands who never would otherwise have cast a thought upon the glory of their country, will by it be awakened to a sense of what befits the descendants of those great men who have died in the cause of national freedom. While it will testify the gratitude of the nation to departed worth, I will serve at the same time to mark the distinction which similar victories may win. Like the Roman Capitol, it will stand at once the monument of former greatness and the pledge of future glory.

EXERCISE XCI.

WHERE SHOULD THE SCHOLAR LIVE!

LONGFELLOW.

1. Where should the scholar live? In solitude or in society? In the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of nature beat, or in the dark, gray city, where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man? I will make answer for him, and say in the dark, gray city. Oh, they do greatly eri who think, that the stars are all the poetry which cities have; and, therefore, that the poet's only dwelling should be in sylvan solitudes, under the green roof of

trees.

2. Beautiful, no doubt, are all the forms of nature, when transfigured by the miraculous power of poetry; hamlets and harvest-fields, and nut-brown waters, flowing ever under the forest, vast and shadowy, with all the sights and sounds of rural life. But, after all, what are these but the decorations and painted scenery in the great theater of human life? What are they but the coarse materials of the poet's song? Glorious, indeed, is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the land of song; there lies the poet's native land.

3. The river of life that flows through streets tumultuous, bearing along so many gallant hearts, so many wrecks of hu manity; the many homes and households, each a little world in itself, revolving round its fireside, as a central sun; all forms of human joy and suffering, brought into that narrow compass; and to be in this and be a part of this; acting, thinking, rejoicing, sorrowing with his fellow-men; such, such should be the poet's life. If he would describe the world, he should live in the world. The mind of the scholar, also, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised even by rude encounters, than hung forever resting on the wall.

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