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5. Urge me no more! a blight hath fallen upon my altered years;

I should but darken thy young life with sleepless pangs and fears;

But take, at least, the lute I loved, and guard it for my sake,

And sometimes from the silvery strings one tone of memory wake!

Sing to those chords, in starlight hours, our Own sweet vesper-hymn,

And think that I, too, chant it then, far in my cloister dim!

SECOND SPEAKER.

6. Yes! I will take the silvery lute, and I will sing to thee

A song we heard in childhood's days, e'en from our father's knee;

O! listen, listen! are those notes amidst forgotten things?

Do they not linger, as in love, on the familiar strings?

Seems not our sainted mother's voice to murmur in the strain?

Kind sister! gentlest Leonore! say, shall it plead in vain?

SONG.-LEAVE US NOT.

Leave us not, leave us not! say not a- dieu! Have we not been to thee

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7. O sister! thou hast won me back! too many fond thoughts lie

In every soft spring-breathing tone of that old melody:

I can not, can not leave thee now! e'en though my

grief should fall

As a shadow on the pageantries that crowd our ancient hall;

But take me! clasp me in thine arms!-I will not mourn my lot,

Whilst love like thine remains on earth - I leave,
I leave thee not!

FELICIA HEMANS.

LI. BRANCHES OR TYPES OF ANIMALS.

1. Animals are divided into four great branches, or types, distinguished by the terms Vertebrated, Molluscous, Articulated and Radiated.

2. The first division includes all of those animals which are provided with a backbone; and they are so called because the similar bones, or joints, of which it is composed are called by anatomists vertebræ, from a Latin word signifying to turn. The individuals that belong to this division are called vertebrated animals.

3. They are subdivided into four classes: 1. Mammalia; comprehending man, land quadrupeds and the whale tribe; that is, all animals that give suck to their young. 2. Birds of all kinds. 3. Reptiles; of which are frogs, serpents, lizards, crocodiles, alligators, tortoises and turtles. 4. Fishes of all kinds, except the whale tribe, which belongs to the class Mammalia.

4. The second division includes all of those animals which have no bones; and because their bodies contain no hard parts, they are called molluscous animals, from a Latin word signifying soft. With a few exceptions, they have a hard covering, or shell, to which they are either attached, or in which they can inclose themselves, and be preserved from injuries to which, from their soft nature, they would otherwise be constantly exposed.

5. Apart from the few exceptions referred to, mollus

cous animals are subdivided into three classes: 1. Univalves; that is, animals armed with a shell, or valve, forming one continuous piece; such as snails. 2. Bivalves, or those having two shells united by a hinge; such as oysters and clams. 3. Multivalves, or those having more than two shells; of which the common barnacle is an example.

6. The third division is assigned to what are called articulated animals; these having a peculiar structure called articulations, from articulus, Latin for a little joint. It is subdivided into four classes: 1. Annelides, or those having a ringed structure, from annulus, Latin for ring; leeches and earth-worms are examples. 2. Crustacea, or those which have their soft bodies and limbs protected by a hard coating, or crust, which in common language we call shell also; such as lobsters, crabs and prawns. 3. Spiders, which form a class by themselves. 4. Insects, such as flies, beetles, bees and butterflies.

7. The fourth division comprehends a great variety of animals which have a structure like an assemblage of rays diverging from a common point like the spokes of a carriage wheel; and on this account they are called radiated animals, from radius, the Latin for ray. It contains five classes; but as three of these are animals without hard. parts, we may pass them by.

8. Of the remaining two, one contains the echini, or sea-urchins; the other, the very numerous tribe called zoophytes, from two Greek words signifying animal and plant; because the animal is fixed to the ground and builds its strong habitation in the form of a shrub, or branch, or leafy plant. Corals and sponges belong to this class; and among all the different animal remains that are found, there is no class which bears any proportion in point either of frequency of occurrence, or in quantity, to this last.

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1. Never speak any thing for a truth which you know or believe to be false. Lying is a great sin against God, who gave us a tongue to speak truths, and not falsehoods. It is a great offense against humanity itself; for where there is no regard to truth, there can be no safe society between man and man.

2. And it is an injury to the speaker; for, besides the disgrace which it brings upon him, it occasions so much baseness of mind that he can scarcely tell truth, or avoid lying even when he has no color of necessity for it; and, in time, he comes to such a pass that, as other people can not believe he speaks truth, so he himself scarcely knows when he tells a falsehood.

3. You must not equivocate, nor speak any thing positively for which you have no authority but report, or conjecture, or opinion. Let your words be few, especially when your superiors or strangers are present, lest you betray your own weakness, and rob yourself of the opportunity which you might otherwise have had to gain knowledge, wisdom and experience, by hearing those whom you silence by your impertinent talking.

4. Be not too earnest, loud, or violent in your conversation. Silence your opponent with reason, not with noise. Be careful not to interrupt another when he is speaking. Hear him out, and you will understand him the better, and be able to give him the better answer.

5. Consider before you speak, especially when the business is of moment; weigh the sense of what you mean to utter, and the expressions you intend to use, that they may be significant, to the point, and inoffensive. Inconsiderate persons do not think till they speak; or they speak, and then think.

6. Some men excel in one thing, some in another. In

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