land of its nativity, and yearns for the blast to bear it across the sea.

6. Thou alone, O lark! hast wings given thee that thou mayest be perfectly happy,-no other bird but thee can at once soar and sing, and heavenward thou seemest to be borne, not more by those twinkling pinions than by the ever-varying, ever-deepening melodies effusing from thy heart.

QUESTIONS.-1. Higher than what does the lark soar? 2. Can you describe its descent? 3. What is said of the eagle? 4. Of the dove? 5. Of the heron? 6. Of "the blackening trains o' craws?" 7. Of the swallow? 8. In what respect does the flight of the lark differ from other birds, as it soars heavenward? 9. What is meant by "bearded corn," 2d paragraph?

LESSON LXXIX.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. BLITHE SOME, gay; cheerful. 2. CUM' BERLESS, unburdened; untroubled. 3. MAT IN, morning; morning song or prayer. 4. MOOR' LAND, marshy ground, or low land. 5. EM'BLEM, symbol; sign. 6. Down' Y, resembling down, or fine soft feathers. 7. EN ER GY, force. 8. FELL, a barren or stony hili. 9. HER' ALDS, proclaims. 10. CLOUD' LET, a little cloud. 11. CHER' UB, celestial being. 12. GLOAM' ING, twilight. 13. HEATH' ER, a kind of shrub; heath.

ODE TO THE LARK.

1. Bird of the wilderness,

Blithesome and cumberless,

JAMES HOGG

Sweet be thy matin o'er moorland and lea!
Emblem of happiness,

Blest is thy dwelling-place

O, to abide in the desert with thee'
Wild is thy lay and loud,

Far in the downy cloud,

Love gives it energy, love gave it birth.
Where on thy dewy wing-

Where art thou journeying?

Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth.

2. O'er fell and fountain sheer,
O'er moor and mountain green,

O'er the red streamer that heralds the day,
Over the cloudlet dim,

Over the rainbow's rim,
Musical cherub, soar, singing away!
Then, when the gloaming comes,
Low in the heather blooms,

Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be!
Emblem of happiness,

Blest is thy dwelling-place,

O, to abide in the desert with thee!

QUESTIONS.-1. What is said of the song of the lark in the 1st stanza? 2. What is meant by calling the lark an "emblem of happiness"? 3. What is meant by "red streamer," 2d paragraph!

LESSON LXXX.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. UN MAR RED, not injured; unspoiled. 2. RE FIN' ED, purified; delicate. 3. VIG' OR OUS, strong; energetic. 4. IM PRU DENT, unwise; indiscreet. 5. RUD' DY, of a red color reddish. 6. SUL' TRY, very hot. 7. PALL' ED, deprived of vigor, or vitality. 8. SUB DUE', overcome. AL TERN' ATE, one after another; being or happening by turns. can not be overcome. 11. AS SERT', cheer; stimulate.

9.

10. UN SUR MOUNT' A BLE, that

affirm; declare. 12. AN' IMATE,

1. PHE' BUS, (which name, literally, signifies bright, or pure,) is an old epithet of the Sun-God, Apollo. Hence, often, as in the piece following, the term Phœbus is poetically employed to designate the Sun.

IMPORTANCE OF EARLY RISING.

CATHARINE TALBOT

1. Awake, my Laura, break the silken chain,
Awake, my friend, to hours unmarred by pain:
Awake to peaceful joys and thoughts refined,
Youth's cheerful morn, and Virtue's vigorous mind:
Wake to all joys fair friendship can bestow,
All that from health and prosperous fortune flow.
Still dost thou sleép? awake, imprudent fair;
Few hours has life, and few of those car spare!

2. Forsake thy drowsy couch, and sprightly rise
While yet fresh morning streaks the ruddy skies:
While yet the birds their early matins sing,
And all around us blooming as the spring;
Ere sultry 'Phoebus with his scorching ray,
Has drank the dew drops from their mansion gay,
Scorched every flower, embrowned each drooping green,
Palled the pure air, and chased the pleasing scene.
Still dost thou sleep? O, rise, imprudent fair!
Few hours has life, nor of those few can spare!

3. Think of the task those hours have yet in view,
Reason to arm, and passion to subdue;
While life's fair claim, and flattering moments last,
To fence your mind against the stormy blast:
Early to hoard blest Wisdom's peace-fraught store,
Ere yet your bark forsakes the friendly shore,
And the winds whistle, and the billows roar.

4. Imperfect beings! weakly armed to bear

Pleasure's soft wiles, or sorrow's open war;
Alternate shocks from different sides to feel,
Now to subdue the heart, and now to steel:
Not weakly arm'd, if ever on our guard,
Nor to the worst unequal, if prepared:
Not unsurmountable the task, if loved,
Nor short the time, if every hour improved.

5. (f) O, rouse thee, then! nor shun the glorious strife,Extend, improve, enjoy the hours of life:

(<) Assert thy reason, animate thy heart,

And act through life's short scene the useful part: (p.) Then sleep in peace, by gentlest memory crown'd, Till Time's vast year has fill'd its perfect round.

QUESTIONS.1. What motives to early rising are presented in this piece! 2. What is meant by Phoebus?

What rule for the falling inflection on awake, st stanza? What, for the rising on Laura, friend, and fair? What, for the rising on sleep? With what different modulations should the last stanza be read! See Notation, p. 40.

LESSON LXXXI.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. EN GEN' DERS, produces. 2. Ax' IOM, self. evident truth. 3. BE NEV' O LENT, well-wishing; kind-hearted. 4. IM I TA' TION, the act of imitating. 5. DIS PENS' ER, one who gives out, or distributes. 6. PUR' LIEUS, borders; enclosures. 7. OP' ULENCE, wealth. 8. MYS TE RI OUS, hidden. 9. PEN' U RY, poverty. 10. BALE FUL, sorrowful. 11. LOOP' ED, full of holes. 12. PROS PER' I TY, good fortune; wealth. 13. PRO FU' SION, plenty; abundance. 14. REVELS, feasts with noisy jollity. 15. BE NEF' I CENCE, the act of doing good; charity. 16. EX CLU' SION, denial of admission of

entrance.

Be careful to avoid the suppression of any syllable of a word, as benev❜lent for benevolent, suffrers for sufferers, mis'ry for misery, &c.

DANGER OF RICHES.

ORVILLE DEWEY.

1. Ah! the rust of riches!-not that portion of them which is kept bright in good and holy uses-" and the consuming fire" of the passions which wealth engenders! No rich man, I lay it down as an axiom of all experience, no rich man is safe, who is not a benevo lent man. No rich man is safe, but in the imitation of that benevolent God, who is the possessor and dispenser of all the riches of the universe.

2. What else mean the miseries of a selfish, luxurious, and fashionable life everywhere? What mean the sighs that come up from the purlieus, and couches, and most secret haunts of all splendid and self-indulgent opulence? Do not tell me that other men are sufferers too. Say not that the poor, and destitute, and forlorn, are miserable also. Ah! just Heaven! thou hast, in thy mysterious wisdom, appointed to them a lot hard, full hard to bear.

3. (P)Poor houseless wretches! who "eat the bitter bread of penury, and drink the baleful cup of misery;" the winter's winds blow keenly through your "looped and windowed raggedness;" your children wander about unshod, unclothed, and untended; I wonder not that ye sigh. But why should those who are surrounded with every thing that heart can wish, or imagination conceive the very crumbs that fall from whose table

of prosperity, might feed hundreds-why should they sigh amidst their profusion and splendor? They have broken the bond that should connect power with usefulness, and opulence with mercy. That is the reason.

4. They have taken up their treasures, and wander. ed away into a forbidden world of their own, far from the sympathies of suffering humanity; and the heavy night-dews are descending upon their splendid revels; and the all-gladdening light of heavenly beneficence is exchanged for the sickly glare of selfish enjoyment; and happiness, the blessed angel that hovers over generous deeds and heroic virtues, has fled away from that world of false gayety and fashionable exclusion.

QUESTIONS.-1. When, only, is the rich man safe? 2. Why do the rich often sigh?

How, according to the notation, should the first part of the 3d paragraph be read! What antithetic words in this paragraph?

LESSON LXXXII.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. AL LAYS', drawbacks; hindrances. 2. PARA LYTIC, palsied; benumbed. 3. SA' BLES., furs of the sable. 4. SCOR PI ON, a reptile with a venomous sting. 5. SPEC' TERS, ghosts, apparitions. 6. IL LU' SIONS, deceptive appearances. 7. FAN TASTIC, fanciful; whimsical. 8. FLAY' ING, taking off the skin; skinning. 9. CAL' DRON, a large kettle or boiler. 10. DE LICIOUS, delightful. 11. IN TER MED DLE, interfere. 12. PI' RATES, robbers on the high seas. 13. MER' CHANT MAN, a vessel used for the transportation of goods. 14. SPIR' IT U AL, pertaining to the mind or spirit. 15. PRES' ENT LY, at present; for the time being.

1. SCYTH' I ANS, the general name given by the ancients to the nomadic or wandering tribes of the north of Europe and Asia, beyond the Black Sea.

REAL AND APPARENT HAPPINESS.

JEREMY TAYLOR

1. If we could look into the thoughts of the prosperous and prevailing tyrant, we should find, even in the days of his joys, such allays and abatements of his