nence (and eminence), instinctively, incredible, stentorian, apprehend, ignominious, execution, condemned, stratagem, ravages, exhausted, barrier, rowels, charger, triumphant, proximity, saber, prostrate, discomfited, brandished, recoil.

V. "Curbed his impatience" (as an impatient horse is curbed by the rein and bit).

LXXVI. BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE.

1. Not a drum was heard, nor a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot

O'er the grave where our hero we buried.

2. We buried him darkly, at dead of night,
The sods with our bayonets turning,
By the struggling moonbeams' misty light,
And the lantern dimly burning.

3. No useless coffin inclosed his breast,

Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay, like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.

4. Few and short were the prayers we said,
And we spoke not a word of sorrow;
But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead,
And we bitterly thought of the morrow.

5. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow,

That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his

head,

And we far away on the billow!

6. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone,
And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ;

But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on,
In the grave where a Briton has laid him!

7. But half of our heavy task was done

When the clock tolled the hour for retiring,
And we heard the distant and random gun
That the foe was sullenly firing.

8. Slowly and sadly we laid him down,

From the field of his fame fresh and gory!
We carved not a line, we raised not a stone,
But we left him alone in his glory.

Charles Wolfe.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. Lord Byron pronounced this poem the most perfect in the language. Sir John Moore was killed by a cannon ball at Corunna, Spain, in 1809. His army repulsed Marshal Soult, one of Napoleon's generals, but embarked for England immediately afterward.

II. Bay'-o-nets, war'-rior (war'yĕr), strŭg' gling, bur'-ied (běr ́-rid). III. Explain the use of the apostrophe in o'er, they'll, he'll, that's.

IV. Corse, rampart, random, sullenly, upbraid, reck.

V. Make a list of rhymes used in this poem, and mark the imperfect ones (note, shot; hurried, buried; down, stone). Divide the lines of the first stanza into feet, marking the accented syllables ("Not a drum was heard, | nor a fu- | neral note"). Do you pronounce gone so as to rhyme with on, or with lawn? (See Lesson LXXIV.)

LXXVII. THE CASTLE BY THE SEA.

EXAMPLE OF JOYOUS AND SAD EXPRESSION FOR THE SIMPLE RISING AND FALLING SLIDES.

[The happy spirit of the questions requires faster time, and louder and smoother force, and longer slides, and clearer, happier tones, to express the cumulating, eager

joy; while the sad spirit of the answers requires slow and slower time, with softer force, and shorter slides, and a slightly abrupt stress, to give the cumulating sorrow so vividly suggested.]

"Hast thou seen' that lordly' castle',

That castle by the sea' ?
Golden and red above it

The clouds float gorgeously.

"And fain it would stoop downward'
To the mirrored wave' below;
And fain it would soar upward`

In the evening's crimson glow."

"Well have I seen that castle',
That castle by the sea',
And the moon' above it standing,
And the mist rise solemnly'."

"The winds and the waves' of ocean,
Had they a merry' chime?

Didst thou hear, from those lofty chambers,
The harp' and the minstrel's' rhyme?"

"The winds and the waves of ocean,

They rested' quietly`;

But I heard on the gale a sound of WAIL',
And tears' came to mine eye."

"And sawest thou on the turrets

The king' and his royal bride' ?—
And the wave of their crimson mantles' ?—
And the golden crown of pride'?

"Led they not forth, in rapture,
A beauteous MAIDEN' there,
Resplendent as the morning sun',
Beaming with golden hair' ?"

"Well saw I the ancient parents,
WITHOUT' the crown of pride';

They were moving slow, in weeds of woe';
No maiden' was by their side!"

Uhland (translated by H. W. Longfellow).

LXXVIII.-HOHENLINDEN.

1. On Linden, when the sun was low,
All bloodless lay th' untrodden snow,
And dark as winter was the flow
Of Iser, rolling rapidly.

2. But Linden saw another sight,
When the drum beat at dead of night,
Commanding fires of death to light
The darkness of her scenery.

3. By torch and trumpet fast arrayed,
Each horseman drew his battle blade,
And furious every charger neighed,
To join the dreadful revelry.

4. Then shook the hills, with thunder riven;
Then rushed the steed, to battle driven;
And, louder than the bolts of heaven,
Far flashed the red artillery.

5. But redder yet that light shall glow
On Linden's hills of stainéd snow,

And bloodier yet the torrent flow
Of Iser, rolling rapidly.

6. "Tis

lurid sun

morn, but scarce yon
Can pierce the war clouds, rolling dun,
Where furious Frank and fiery Hun
Shout in their sulph'rous canopy.

7. The combat deepens. On, ye brave,
Who rush to glory or the grave!
Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave,
And charge with all thy chivalry!

8. Few, few shall part where many meet!
The snow shall be their winding sheet,
And every turf beneath their feet

Shall be a soldier's sepulcher.

Thomas Campbell.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. Campbell, at the age of twenty-three, on a visit to Germany to study its literature, witnessed, from a safe position, this battle between the French (" furious Frank "), under Moreau, and the Austrians ("fiery Hun," named from the Huns, who settled in Austria, or Hungary, after overrunning Europe in the fifth century), under Archduke John. (Hohenlinden means linden [kind of tree] heights.) Find, on the map, the Ï'şer, and trace its waters to the sea. Mū'nieh is the capital of Bavaria;

find it on the map.

II. Sçen'-er-y, neighed (nad), pierçe, sōl'-dier (-jer), sěp'-ul-eher (-ker), rōll'-ing, sight (sit), tor'-rent.

III. "Sulph'rous "-why u omitted? Explain the meaning of the prefix un and the suffix en in untrodden. Note the alliteration in this poem (recurrence of 7 (1), d (2), b, battle blade (3), ƒ, far flashed (4), etc.).

IV. "Dead of night," arrayed, charger, revelry, riven, "bolts of heaven," artillery, dun, canopy, combat, banners, chivalry, "winding sheet," "fires of death."

V. Note the succession of scenes and their contrasts: (1) Snow untrodden; bloodless; near sunset; dark and rapid river. (2) The night fol