'We drink the same stream, | and view the same sun, | And run the same course our fathers have run.

The thoughts we are thinking | our fathers would think; |

From the death we are shrinking | our fathers would shrink, |

To the life we are clinging | they also would cling; |
But it speeds from us all | like a bird on the wing. |
I stood on the bridge | at midnight, |

As the clocks were striking the hour; |
And the moon rose o'er the city, |
Behind the dark church-tower; |
And, like the waters rushing
Among the wooden piers, |

A flood of thoughts came o'er me,
That filled my eyes with tears |
How often, oh! how often,

In the days that had gone by,

I had stood on that bridge at midnight,
And gazed on that wave and sky! |
How often, oh! how often,

I had wished that that ebbing tide
Would bear me away on its bosom,
O'er the ocean wild and wide! |

EMPHATIC SENTENCE.

A phrase or sentence, like a word, may be of special importance and demand an emphasis above that given to contingent phrases or sentences.

Thus, a text, a proposition, a statement of preamble, or subject of discussion-all these demand more

phasis. Also, a quotation is emphatic when used to corroborate or with approval. Such a sentence should receive, in addition to the emphatic accents, more time of utterance, and usually fuller tone. The words are connected more closely, and all elements given with more prominence.

Try the following sentences:

There was silence and I heard a voice,

Shall mortal man be more just than God?

This is truth the poet sings,

That a sorrow's crown of sorrows

2.

Is remembering happier things.

3.

There is a tide in the affairs of men,

4.

Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

His text, a few short words of might,

"The Lord of hosts shall arm the right."

That

5. We hold these truths to be self evident: all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

To Determine Emphasis.

The Emphasis must go with the idea. That word is important which suggests the speaker's mental conception, and only that word receives the Accent,—the sign of the idea.

What words are these?

1. The subject of discourse, if it has not already be spoken or suggested. And, on a larger scale, the opening of a speech, sermon, lecture, or selection, will have more emphatic words than an after part. But the emphasis, though more frequent, is seldom as strong as at the middle or close of the speech. This will be evident, as at the opening of the discourse, I must give my auditors all the ideas of location, place, manner, people, objects of interest, &c., but when these are known, many ideas have been suggested that I may afterwards pass by.

2.

When my subject is known, the predicate will receive the emphasis. As each sentence has at least one idea, if this be not in the subject, it will surely be found with the predicate.

3. Explanations are usually emphatic. As a rule, that which we speak regarding subjects, is more emphatic than the subject itself. Thus, I say, "There is a man on the street." "That man is President of the United States." Here the interest is not that there is a man, but that he is President. So if subjects are known and predicates, then adjectives, adjective phrases appositional words or phrases, adverbs and adverbial phrases these take the emphasis.

4. In general, the new thing, the uecessary word has the emphasis. This is the word that completes the meaning for your auditors, that satisfies their ever recurring questions-What is it? Who? How?

Thus I say, "I came to the city." The meaning is complete at "city," and, of course, it has the emphasis. But if the "city" is in the minds of the auditors; if some one else has come to the city, then "I" may

have this emphasis. Or, if some one has come part of the way, then “to” has the emphasis. It is the yet untold thing that has the right of emphasis. In this sentence: "Full many a gem of purest ray serene, the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear." Here,

there is no complete meaning for the listener until your voice utters ocean. Then the question is answered, the riddle plain, the auditor says, "I understand."

5. All peculiar facts, incidents and circumstances are emphatic. The same as in a case at law. There the deed itself; the time, the day, hour, minute, the place, surroundings; the manner, means and motive, the names of all people concerned,-all these are emphatic. Thus, there was a man by name Smith,—he came to the City, he went to Fifth Avenue,-to house No. Ninety-three, he became angry,-he killed a man,he was arrested,-brought to trial,-found guilty, and executed.

Thus we have a line of thought studded with incidents, and these one by one are emphatic. Thus a speaker proceeds, Accent after Accent, noting ideas in their order, so translating his thought to his auditors.

start to the right at a moderate rate and continue just as long as you sound the o. Try several times, making the word more emphatic each time, and you will perceive the line will be longer as the emphasis in

creases.

In like manner try this sentence: Arm, arm for Rome, emphasis on arm and Rome. Also, BACK! Are ye not ASHAMED, as marked and you will perceive that these emphatic vowels grow longer as they are made more emphatic. Try each one with the board and chalk.

Now place the chalk at li and take the sentence: We had a delightful time, emphasis on delightful. Use chalk as before and you will observe: 1. The vowel cannot be easily prolonged. 2. As emphasis increases the line and sound are shorter,