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The teacher will explain to the pupils the meaning of this poem; train them to read it, and then require them to memorize it for recitation.

1. All are architects of Fàte,

Working in these walls of Time;

Sóme with massive deeds and greát,
!
Sóme with ornaments of rhyme.

2. Nothing useless is or low,

Each thing in its place | is bèst;
And what seems but idle shów |
Strengthens and supports the rèst.
3. For the structure | that we raise,
Time is with materials | filled;
Our to-days and yesterdays |

Are the blocks with which we build.

4. Truly shape and fashion these;

Leave no yawning gaps between;

Think not, because no man sées,
Such things will remain unsèen.

5. In the elder days | of árt,

Builders wrought with greatest cáre |
Each minute and unseen pàrt;

For the gods are every-where.

6. Let us do our work as well,

Both the unseen and the sèen;
Make the house, where góds | may dwell,
Beautiful, entíre, and clean.

7. Else our lives | are incomplète,
Standing in these walls of Time;
Broken stairways, where the feet |
Stumble as they seek to climb.

8. Build to-day, then, stróng and sùre,
With a firm and ample báse,
And ascending and secure |
Shall to-morrow | find its plàce.

9. Thus alone can we attain |

To those turrets, where the eye |
Sees the world as one vast pláin,
And one boundless reach of sky.

ar chi tects, builders.

struct'ure, building.

mi nute', very small.

DEFINITIONS.

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LONGFELLOW.

base, foundation.

tur'rets, towers.

se cure', safe.

Questions. Ask pupils to tell why rhetorical pauses are placed where they are, and why the inflections are marked as they are.

32.

CHARACTER OF TRUE ELOQUENCE.

Read this extract, sentence by sentence, and let the class, in concert, repeat after you. The movement is slow; the pauses long; and the force, declamatory. Finally, assign it to the boys of the class to be committed to memory for declamation.

1. When public bódies | are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests | are at stake, and strong passions | excited, nothing | is valuable, in speech, further than it is connected with high intellectual and mòral endowments. Cleàrness, fòrce, and eàrnestness | are the qualities which produce conviction.

2. Trúe èloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from fùr. Labor and learning may tóil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the sùbject, and in the occasion.

3. Affected passion, intense expréssion, the pomp of

declamation, àll | may aspire after it-they cannot rèach it. It comes, if it come at áll, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force.

4. The graces | taught in the schools, the costly órnaments and studied contrivances of speech, shock and disgust men, when their own lives, and the fate of their wives, their children, and their country, hang on the decision of the hour. Then | words have lost their power, rhétoric is váin, and all elaborate óratory contemptible.

5. Even genius itself | then feels rebuked, and subdued, as in the presence of higher qualities. Thén, pàtriotism | is eloquent; thén, self-devòtion | is eloquent. The clear concèption, outrunning the deductions of lògic, the high purpose, the firm resòlve, the dauntless spirit, spéaking on the tongue, béaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole mán ònward, right ònward to his òbject—this, this | is èloquence; or rather it is something greáter and higher than àll èloquence— it is àction-nòble, sublime, gòdlike action. WEBSTER.

DICTIONARY LESSON. Find the meaning of the following words: endowments, spontaneous, elaborate, dauntless, compass.

33. THE CROWDED STREET.

Mark this poem for rhetorical pauses and inflection.

1. Let me move slowly through the street,
Filled with an ever-shifting tráin,
Amid the sound of steps that beat |
The murmuring walks like autumn ràin.

2. How fast the flitting figures | come!
The mild, the fiérce, the stony fàce;

Some bright with thoughtless smiles, and some [
Where secret tèars | have left their trace.

3. They pass-to toil, to strife, to rest;
To halls in which the feast is spread;
To chambers where the funeral guest
In silence sits beside the dead.

4. And some to happy homes repair,

Where children, pressing cheek to cheek, With mute caresses shall declare

The tenderness they cannot speak.

5. And some, who walk in calmness here,

Shall shudder when they reach the door
Where one who made their dwelling dear,
Its flower, its light, is seen no more.

6. Youth, with pale cheek and slender frame
And dreams of greatness in thine eye!
Goest thou to build an early name,
Or early in the task to die?

7. Keen son of trade, with eager brow!
Who is now fluttering in thy snare?
Thy golden fortunes, tower they now,
Or melt the glittering spires in air?

8. Who of this crowd to-night shall tread
The dance till daylight gleam again?
Who sorrow o'er the untimely dead?
Who writhe in throes of mortal pain?

9. Some, famine-struck, shall think how long The cold, dark hours, how slow the light; And some, who flaunt amid the throng,

Shall hide in dens of shame to-night.

10. Each, where his tasks or pleasures call, They pass, and heed each other not. There is who heeds, who holds them all,

In His large love and boundless thought.

11. These struggling tides of life, that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream

That rolls to its appointed end.

BRYANT.

34.

BENJ. FRANKLIN'S MORAL CODE.

The following list of moral virtues was drawn up by Dr. Franklin for the regulation of his life:

Temperance. Eat not to dullness, drink not to eleva

tion.

Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

Order. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Resolution. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

Frugality. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; that is, waste nothing.

Industry. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary action.

Sincerity. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and if you speak, speak accordingly.

Justice. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

Moderation. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.

Tranquillity. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

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