When the war-cry of Argentine Fell faintly on his ear! 'Save, save his life,' he cried, 'O save He raised his red-cross shield no more, Helm, cuish, and breastplate streamed with gore, He strove e'en then to couch his lance- The spur-stroke failed to rouse the horse; Then foremost was the generous Bruce As boon from ancient comrade, crave- Bruce pressed his dying hand-its grasp And, 'Oh, farewell!' the victor cried, The courteous mien, the noble race, Nor for De Argentine alone Through Ninian's church these torches shone, And rose the death-prayer's awful tone. That yellow lustre glimmered pale, On broken plate and bloodied mail, And the best names that England knew, Y Retreated from so sad a field, Oft Since Norman William came, When for her freeborn rights she strove; Lord of the Isles. APOSTROPHE TO THE OCEAN. (Lord Byron.) [Born, 1788; died, 1824. Chief works: Hours of Idleness,' 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,'' Childe Harold,' The Giaour,' 'The Bride of Abydos,' "The Corsair,' 'Lara,' 'Manfred,' ' Don Juan,' ' Prisoner of Chillon,' &c.] There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. Roll on thou deep, and dark blue Ocean, roll! His steps are on thy paths-thy fields And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And dashest him again to earth; there let him lay! The armaments which thunderstrike the walls And monarchs tremble in their capitals,— These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake, Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee— Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Calm or convulsed-in breeze, or gale, or storm, Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime— Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime Childe Harold. TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY, On turning one down with the plough in April 1786. (Robert Burns.) [Born, 1759; died, 1796. Chief works: 'Cotter's Saturday Night,' 'Tam O'Shanter,' The Jolly Beggars,' &c.] Wee modest crimson-tipped flower, For I maun crush amang the stoure, Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my power, Alas! it's no thy neibor sweet, When upward-springing, blithe, to greet Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Scarce reared above the parent earth The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stubble-field, Unseen, alane. There in thy scanty mantle clad, But now the share upturns thy bed, Such is the fate of artless maid, And guileless trust, Till she, like thee, all soiled is laid, Such is the fate of simple bard, Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, Such fate to suffering worth is given, By human pride or cunning driven Till wrenched of every stay but Heaven, Even those who mourn'st the daisy's fate, Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight, MENSURATION. Bricklayers' work measured by the rod : (1) How many rods of brickwork are there in a wall 48 ft. long, 12 ft. high, and 2 bricks thick? (2) How many rods of brickwork are there in a wall 65 ft. long, 13 ft. 10 in. high, and 2 bricks thick? (3) If . wall be 985 ft. long, 6 ft. high, and 3 bricks thick, what will it cost at £2 10s. 6d. per rod? (4) How many rods are contained in a room 35 ft. long, 11 ft. high, 18 ft. broad, the gable at the ends measuring 9 ft. 6 in. in height, and the walls being 1 brick thick? And what will it cost at £3 28. per rod? THE INFLUENCE OF THE GULF STREAM ON CLIMATE AND COMMERCE. (From the Physical Geography of the Sea,' by Captain Maury.) ap-prox'-i-mate (v.), to draw near to tor-rid, violently hot, parched ze-ro, the point on the thermometer which is marked 0° lit'-to-ral, belonging to the shore hab'-i-tat, a dwelling ar-chi-pel'-a-go, a sea abounding in small islands zone, a girdle, a division of the earth trop'-ics, that portion of the earth which extends 23 degrees north and south of the equator MODERN INGENUITY has suggested a beautiful mode of warming houses in winter. It is done by means of hot water. The furnace and the caldron are sometimes placed at a distance from the apartments to be warmed. It is so at the Washington Observatory. In this case, pipes are used to conduct the heated water from the caldron under the superintendent's dwelling over into one of the basement-rooms of the Observatory, a distance of one hundred feet. These pipes are then flared out so as to present a large cooling surface; after which they are united into one again, through which the water, being now cooled, returns of its own accord to the caldron. Thus |