2. Not now, on Zion's hight alone,
Thy favored worshiper may dwell,
Nor where, at sultry noon, thy Son
Sat, weary, by the Patriarch's well.
3. From every place below the skies,
The grateful song, the fervent prayer,—
The incense of the heart,-may rise
To Heaven, and find acceptance there.

J. PIERPONT.

QUESTIONS. 1. Who was the Lord, and who, John, spoken of in the first verse? 2. Where did Jesus go? 3. What did he ask of the woman? 4. How was she surprised? 5. What conversation followed? 6. What was said in regard to her husband? 7. Whom did she consider Jesus to be? 8. How should God be worshiped? 9. What is meant by sixth hour, close of the first verse? Ans. Twelve o'clock, or noon, since the Jews began to reckon their time at six o'clock.

When different persons are introduced as speaking, how are their remarks to be read? How do you account for the capitals, used after the comma at some places in this lesson? What inflection is to be made before these quotations? (Rule IV. Rem. 2.) What do the Italic words denote ? Are they the same as in the Bible? What do those in the Bible denote? What inflection prevails in the second part, and what Rule for the same?

LESSON XXVI.

SPELL AND DEFINE-1. WENDS, goes. 2. EXILE, (egz'ile), one banished. 3. NOVELTY, newness. 4. RIG'ID, severely strict; stiff. 5. HAR' ASSED, vexed with care. 6. FABLED, feigned; false. 7. BASELESS, without foundation. 8. WARY, timorously careful. 9. ENVIOUS, harboring envy, or grudge, on account of another's prosperity. 10. DELUSIONS, false appearances calculated to deceive. 11. PILGRIMAGE, a long journey, particularly to some place deemed sacred. 12. BETRAY'ED, delivered up in breach of trust; made known.

REMEMBRANCE.

"The remembrance of youth is a sigh."

1. MAN hath a weary pilgrimage,
As through the world he wends;
On every stage from youth to age,
Still discontent attends;

With heaviness he casts his
Upon the road before,

eye

And still remembers with a sigh,
The days that are no more,

SOUTHEY.

2. To school the little exile goes,

Torn from his mother's arms,-
What then shall soothe his earliest woes,
When novelty hath lost its charms ?
Condemn'd to suffer through the day,
Restraints which no rewards repay,

And cares where love has no concern,
Hope lengthens as she counts the hours,
Before his wish'd return.

From hard control and grievous rules,
The rigid discipline of schools,

In thought he loves to roam;
And tears will struggle in his eye,
While he remembers with a sigh,
The comforts of his home.

3. Youth comes; the toils and cares of life, Torment the restless mind;

Where shall the tired and harassed heart
Its consolation find?

Then is not youth, as Fancy tells,
Life's summer prime of jóy?
Ah no! for hopes too long delayed,
And feelings blasted or betrayed,
Its fabled bliss destroy;
And Youth remembers with a sigh,
The careless days of Infancy.

4. Maturer Manhood now arrives,
And other thoughts come on;
But with the baseless hopes of Youth,
Its generous warmth is gone;
Cold calculating cares succeed,
The timid thought, the wary deed,
The dull realities of truth;
Back on the past he turns his eye,
Remembering, with an envious sigh,
The happy dreams of Youth.

5. So reaches he the latter stage
Of this our mortal pilgrimage,
With feeble step and slow;
New ills that latter stage await,
And old Experience learns too late,
That all is vanity below.

Life's vain delusions are gone by;
Its idle hopes are o'er;
Yet Age remembers with a sigh,

The days that are no more.

QUESTIONS.-1. Are we ever satisfied with our present state? 2. How does man regard the future? 3. How, the past? 4. What cares and troubles attend the school-boy? 5. What, youth? 6. What, manhood? 7. What attends old age? 8. How do they all remember the past? 9. What does old experience learn too late?

What have the lines of English poetry generally? (Les. XII. 2.) Does the metrical accent occur regularly in this poetry? What causes the accent in the last line of the third verse to vary from that in the preceding line? (Les. XII. 3.) What, that in the second line, fifth verse? Why do Youth, Fancy, Age, etc. begin with capitals? Does the final pause occur at the end of every line in this poetry?

LESSON XXVII.

SPELL AND DEFINE-1. PERCH, to light or settle down in order to rest. 2. PENANCE, voluntary suffering for one's faults. 3. (UPPER DEEP, the sky.) 4. LAYS, songs. 5. DOME, literally, a house; here means the arch of the sky. 6. CONSECRATED, set apart for any service, as of God. 7. SOAR, to fly up very high. 8. AIR'Y, belonging to air; high in air. 9. GEM, to adorn as with gems, or precious stones.

THE WINGED WORSHIPERS.

C. SPRAGUE.

[Addressed to two swallows that flew into church during divine service.]

1.

GAY, guiltless pair,

What seek ye from the fields of heaven?

Ye have no need of prayer ;

Ye have no sins to be forgiven.

2.

3.

4.

Why perch ye here,

Where mortals to their Maker bend?

Can your pure spirits fear

The God ye never could offend?

Ye never knew

The crimes, for which we come to weep:

Penance is not for you,

Blessed wanderers of the upper deep.

5.

6.

7.

8.

Then spread each wing,

Far, far above, o'er lakes and lands,
And join the choirs that sing

In yon blue dome, not reared with hands.

Or, if ye stay

To note the consecrated hour,

Teach me the airy way,

And let me try your envied power.

Above the crowd,

On upward wings could I but fly,
I'd bathe in yon bright cloud,

And seek the stars that gem the sky.

"Twere heaven indeed,

Through fields of trackless light to soar,

On nature's charms to feed,

And nature's own great God adore.

QUESTIONS.-1. What are addressed in this lesson? 2. Where had they come? 3. What does the writer command them? 4. What would he fain do? 5. What would be regarded a heaven by the writer, last verse?

What inflection at pair, first verse? What inflection do commands require? (Rule VII. Les. VI.) Which lines in this poetry have the cesural pause, and which not? Between which words in the second and fourth lines of the first verse does it occur? What inflection has the question, first verse? In what respect do the questions, second verse, differ, and what Rules for their inflections? What example of antithetic emphasis, third verse? Why the rising inflection on deep, third verse? (Rule IV. Note I.) Point out the different uses of the apostrophes in the fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth verses. Which has the more intense degree of emphasis, the first or second far, fifth verse?

LESSON XXVIII.

SPELL AND DEFINE-1. RICKS, large heaps or piles of hay or grain, in the fields; stacks. 2. EXHALES', sends out; emits. 3. BUT'TRESS, a wall built to support another on the outside; a prop. 4. BLEACHED, made white. 5. HOSPITALS, houses for the reception of the sick, infirm, and helpless persons. 6. RAPINE, (rap'in) the act of plundering. 7. STANCH, to stop the flowing of blood. 8. DECREPIT, broken down with age.

CONTRAST BETWEEN PEACE AND WAR.

PEACE.

ATHENEUM.

1. LOVELY art thou, O Péace! and lovely are thy children, and lovely are the prints of thy footsteps in the green val

leys. Blue wreaths of smoke ascend through the trees, and betray the half-hidden cottage; the eye contemplates wellthatched ricks, and barns, bursting with plenty: the peasant laughs at the approach of winter.

2. White houses peep through the trees; cattle stand cooling in the pool; the casement of the farm-house is covered with jasmine and honey-suckle; the stately green-house exhales the perfume of summer climates. Children climb the green mound of the rampart, and ivy holds together the half-demolished buttress. The old men sit at their doors; the gossip leans over her counter. The housewife's stores of bleached linen, whiter than snow, are laid up with fragrant herbs; they are the pride of the matron, the toil of many a winter's night.

3. The wares of the merchant are spread abroad in the shops, or stored in the high-piled warehouses; the labor of each profits all; the inhabitants of the north drink the fragrant herb of China; the peasant's child wears the webs of Hindostan. The lame, the blind, and the aged, repose in hospitals; the rich, softened by prosperity, pity the poor; the poor, disciplined into order, respect the rich. Justice is dispensed to all. Law sits steadily on her throne, and the sword is her servant.

WAR.

4. They have rushed through like a hurricane; like an army of locusts they have devoured the earth; the war has fallen like a water spout, and deluged the land with blood. The smoke rises not through the trees, for the honors of the grove are fallen; and the hearth of the cottager is cold; but it rises from villages, burned with fire, and from warm ruins, spread over the now naked plain.

5. The ear is filled with the confused bellowing of oxen, and sad bleating of over-driven sheep; they are swept from their peaceful plains; with shouting and goading are they driven away; the peasant folds his arms, and resigns his faithful fellow-laborers. The farmer weeps over his barns, consumed by fire, and his demolished roof, and anticipates the driving of the winter snows.

6. On that rising ground, where the green turf looks black with fire, yesterday stood a noble mansion; the owner had -said in his heart, here will I spend the evening of my days, and enjoy the fruit of my years of toil; my name shall