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13.-1. The SUN ROSE on the sea.

2. A MIST ROSE slowly from the lake.
3. The NIGHT PASSED away in song.

4. MORNING RETURNED in joy.

5. The MOUNTAINS SHOWED their gray HEADS.

6. The blue FACE of ocean SMILED.

7. DAY DECLINES.

8. Hollow WINDS ARE in the pines. 9. Darkly MOVES each giant BOUGH O'er the sky's last crimson glow. 10. Nature's richest DYES

ARE FLOATING o'er Italian skies.

11. A golden STAFF his STEPS SUPPORTED.

12. The dying NOTES Still MURMUR on the string.
13. A purple ROBE his dying FRAME SHALL FOLD.

14. At the heaving billows STOOD the meager FORM of
Care.

15. Oft the SHEPHERD CALLED THEE to his flock.
16. The comely TEAR STEALS o'er the cheek.
17. The STORM of wintry time WILL quickly PASS.
18. Thus, in some deep retirement, WOULD I PASS

The WINTER-GLOOMS, with friends of pleasant soul. 19. Then COMES the FATHER of the tempest forth, Wrapt in thick glooms.

9. Glow of the sky. (See Gr., p. 246, obs. 5.) 19. Being wrapped in glooms.

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14.-20. Thy BOUNTY SHINES in autumn, unconfined,* And SPREADS a common FEAST for all that live. 21. SOME in the fields of purest ether PLAY,

And BASK and WHITEN in the blaze of day.
22. On thy fair bosom, waveless stream,
The dipping PADDLE ECHOES far,

And FLASHES in the moonlight gleam.
23. WHO CAN OBSERVE the careful ANT,

And not PROVIDE for future want.
24. NATURE, with folded hands, SEEMED there,
Kneeling at her evening prayer.

25.

The WOODS

THREW their cool SHADOWs freshly to the west.

26. The clear DEW is on the blushing bosoms

Of crimson roses, in a holy rest.

27. SPRING CALLS out each vOICE of the deep blue sky.

28. THOU'RT JOURNEYING to thy spirit's home,

29.

Where the skies are ever clear.

A summer BREEZE

PARTS the deep MASSES of the forest shade,
And LETS a SUNBEAM through.

*20. To an unconfined extent. (Gr., 23, obs. 2.)
22. "Waveless stream" is a logical adjunct ofj
"thy." (Gr., 29, obs. 3, rem.; and Gr., 85,

obs. 2, 3.)

24. Seemed to be kneeling there.

29. Lets a sunbeam through them—i. e.,

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14.-30. The PINES GREW RED with morning.*

31. SIN HATH BROKE the world's sweet PEACE--UN

STRUNG

Th' harmonious CHORDS to which the angels

sung.

32. And EVE, along the western skies,

SPREADS her intermingling DYES.

33. The blooming MORNING OPE'D her dewy EYE.
34. NO MARBLE MARKS thy COUCH of lowly sleep;
35. But living STATUES there ARE SEEN to weep.
36. A distant TORRENT faintly ROARS.

37. His gray LOCKS slowly WAVED in the wind,
And GLITTERED to the beam of night.

38. Oft DID the HARVEST to their sickle YIELD.
39. Their FURROW oft the stubborn glebe HAS BROKE.
40. How jocund DID THEY DRIVE their TEAM a-field!
41. How BOWED the woods beneath their sturdy
stroke!

42. The breezy CALL of incense-breathing morn,
The SWALLOW twittering from the straw-built
shed,

The cock's shrill CLARION, or the echoing horn,
No more SHALL ROUSE THEM from their lowly bed.

*30. Grew red: "red" is an adjective in predicate
with "grew."
." (Gr., 248, note 3.)

31. "Broke," for broken, by apocope. (Gr., 300.)
35. Are seen to weep there.

40. In how jocund a manner. (Gr., 23, obs. 2.)

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