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We drink the same stream, and we view the same

sun,

And run the same course that our fathers have run.

10. The thoughts we are thinking, our fathers would think;

From the death that we shrink from, our fathers
would shrink;

To the life that we cling to, they also would cling;
But it speeds for us all, like a bird on the wing.

11. They loved, but the story we can not unfold;

They scorned, but the heart of the haughty is cold;
They grieved, but no wail from their slumbers will

come;

They joyed, but the tongue of their gladness is dumb.

12. They died-ah! they died-and we things that are

now,

Who walk on the turf that lies over their brow,

Who make in their dwelling a transient abode,
Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage

road.

13. Yea! hope and despondency, pleasure and pain,
We mingle together in sunshine and rain;

And the smiles and the tears, the song and the dirge,
Still follow each other like surge upon surge.

14. 'Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath, From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud: Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?

William Knox.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. This piece was the favorite of Abraham Lincoln. Compare it with Psalms XC. and CIII.

II. Tri'-umphs, e-rased', sçèp'-ter, mi'-ter, peas'-ant, (pěz'-), climbed (klimd), sue-çeed', shrink, haugh'-ty (haw'-), trăn'-sient, (-shent), draught (draft), shroud.

III. Make a list from the above lesson of ten action-words, and before each write the name-word of the object of which the action is told.

IV. Mortal, meteor, molder, multitude, scorned, abode, despondency, surge, bier.

ད V. Explain the force of the similes in the 1st and 2d stanzas. Make a list of the objects mentioned in the piece: (1.) That “have entered their dwellings of rest"; (2.) That are "erased from the minds of the living"; (3.) That are "lost in the grave"; (4.) That have "faded like the grass." Make a list of the expressions used by the poet to indicate death (those already mentioned above, and "mingled their bones in the dust," etc.).

XXXIII. FROZEN WORDS.

1. We were separated by a storm in the latitude of 73° N., insomuch that only the ship which I was in, with a Dutch and a French vessel, got safe into a creek of Nova Zembla. We landed, in order to refit our vessels and store ourselves with provisions. The crew of each vessel made themselves a cabin of turf and wood, at some distance from each other, to fence themselves against the inclemencies of the weather, which was severe beyond imagination.

2. We soon observed that, in talking to one another, we lost several of our words, and could not hear one another at above two yards' distance, and that, too, when we sat very near the fire. After much perplexity, in the air, before they

I found that our words froze

could reach the ears of the person to whom they were spoken.

3. I was soon confirmed in this conjecture, when, upon the increase of the cold, the whole company grew dumb, or rather deaf; for every man was sensible, as we afterward found, that he spoke as well as ever; but the sounds no sooner took air than they were condensed and lost. It was now a miserable spectacle to see us nodding and gaping at one another, every man talking, and no man heard. One might observe a seaman who could hail a ship at a league distance, beckoning with his hands, straining with his lungs, and tearing his throat, but all in vain.

4. We continued here three weeks in this dismal plight. At length, upon a turn of wind, the air about us began to thaw. Our cabin was immediately filled with a dry, clattering sound, which I afterward found to be the crackling of consonants that broke above our heads, and were often mixed with a gentle hissing, which I imputed to the letter s, that occurs so frequently in the English tongue.

5. I soon after felt a breeze of whispers rushing by my ear; for those, being of a soft and gentle substance, immediately liquefied in the warm wind that blew across our cabin. These were soon followed by syllables and short words, and at length by entire sentences, that melted sooner or later, as they were more or less congealed; so that we now heard everything that had been spoken during the whole three weeks that we had been silent, if I may use that expression.

6. It was now very early in the morning; and yet, to my surprise, I heard somebody say, "Sir John, it is midnight, and time for the ship's crew to go to bed." This I knew to be the pilot's voice; and, upon recollecting myself, I concluded that he had spoken these words to

me some days before, though I could not hear them before the present thaw. My reader will easily imagine how the whole crew was amazed to hear every man talking, and see no man opening his mouth.

7. In the midst of this great surprise we were all in, we heard a volley of oaths and curses, lasting for a long while, and uttered in a very hoarse voice, which I knew belonged to the boatswain, who was a very choleric fellow, and had taken his opportunity of cursing and swearing at me when he thought I could not hear him; for I had several times given him the strappado on that account, as I did not fail to repeat it for these his pious soliloquies when I got him on shipboard.

8. I must not omit the names of several beauties in Wapping, which were heard every now and then in the midst of a long sigh that accompanied them: as, "Dear Kate!" "Pretty Mrs. Peggy!" This betrayed several things which had been concealed till that time, and furnished us with a great deal of mirth in our return to England.

9. When this confusion of voices was pretty well over, though I was afraid to offer at speaking, as fearing I should not be heard, I proposed a visit to the Dutch cabin, which lay about a mile farther up into the country. My crew were extremely rejoiced to find they had again recovered their hearing, though every man uttered his voice with the same apprehensions that I had done.

10. At about half a mile's distance from our cabin we heard the groanings of a bear, which at first startled us; but, upon inquiry, we were informed by some of our company that he was dead, and now lay in salt, having been killed upon that very spot about a fortnight before,

in the time of the frost. Not far from the same place, we were entertained likewise with some posthumous snarls and barkings of a fox. Joseph Addison.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. Compare the style of description in this piece, and its quaint humor, with "Robinson Crusoe" and "Gulliver's Travels." For another fictitious account of words freezing in the air, read Baron Munchausen's (Münchhausen's) "Travels" (published after this piece of Addison). Find, on the map of Europe, Nova Zembla. Where is Wapping? (On the Thames, near the center of London.)

II. Sěp'-a-rat-ed, lăt'-i-tüde, pro-vi'-sions (-vizh'unz), weath'-er, gäp'-ing, league (lēg), strain'-ing, diş'-mal, thaw, sỹl'-la-ble, ehŏl'er-ie, boat'-swain, eon-çealed', in-quir'-y.

III. Tell the different meanings occasioned by changing the position of "only" in the sentence, "Insomuch that only the ship which I was in got safe to land" (placing "only" after the; after ship; after which; after in).

IV. Cabin, inclemencies, observed, perplexity, confirmed, conjecture, spectacle, consonants, imputed, liquefied, congealed, during, uttered, opportunity, strappado, soliloquies, apprehensions, groanings, posthumous.

reasons.

V. Do you think it possible for words to freeze in the air? Give your The newly-discovered instrument called the "phonograph" seems to have realized the possibility of preserving and reproducing sounds. The progress of invention has in this instance even surpassed fiction. "Nodding and gaping" (i. e., making gestures with the head, and moving the mouth as one does in talking to anybody). "Letters, in the English tongue." (The English language has been called the "hissing language" for its many s-sounds.) "For these his pious soliloquies "-note the irony.

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XXXIV. WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE?

What constitutes a state?

Not high-raised battlements or labored mound,

Thick wall or moated gate;

Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned;
Not bays and broad-arm ports,

Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride;

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