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the exhausted hearts, and excite the wearied and capricious inclinations, of the men; till, by a rapid and, at length, complete enervation, the Roman character lost its signature, and through a quick succession of slavery, effeminacy, and vice, sunk into that degeneracy of which some of the modern Italiau states now serve to furnish a too just specimen.

QUESTION.-1. What is the Rule for the use of the inflection, a marked in the 2d, 4th, and 6th paragraphs? See page 26.

EXERCISE V.

I LOVE TO IIVE, AND I LIVE TO LOVE.

I LOVE TO LIVE.

1. "I love to live," said a prattling boy,

As he gayly played with his new-bought toy,
And a merry laugh went echoing forth,
From a bosom filled with joyous mirth.

2. "I love to live," said a stripling bold,

"I will seek for fame, I will toil for gold;"
And he formed in his pleasure many a plan,
To be carried out when he grew a man.

3. "I love to live," said a lover true,

"O, gentle maid, I would live for you;
I have labored hard in search of fame,-
I have found it but an empty name."

4. I love to live," said a happy sire,
As his children neared the wintry fire;
For his heart was cheered to see their joy,
And he almost wished himself a boy.

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"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.

8.

I LIVE TO LOVE.

"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.

66 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.

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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?"

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

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 infiection 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 common 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.'

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