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21.

Their náme, their years, spelt by the unlettered Múse,

The place of fame | and élegy | supply;

And many a holy text | around she stréws,
That teach the rustic moralist | to die.

22.

For whó, to dumb forgetfulness | a préy,
This pleasing, anxious béing | e'er resigned,
Left the warm précincts | of the cheerful dáy,
Nor cast one lónging, língering loók | behìnd?

23.

'On some fond bréast | the parting sóul | relies,
Some pious dróps | the closing eye | requires;
E'en from the tomb | the voice of Nature | críes,
E'en in our àshes | live | their wonted fires.

24.

For thée, whó, mindful of the unhonored déad,
Dost in these línes | their artless tale | reláte,

If chance, by lonely contemplation léd,

Some kindred spírit | shall inquire thy fáte,

25.

Háply some hoary-headed swain | may say,
"Oft have we seen him, at the peep of dàwn,
Brushing with hasty steps | the dews away,
To meet the sun | upon the upland làwn.

26.

"There, at the foot | of yonder nodding béech,
That wreathes its old, fantastic roots so high,
His listless length | at noontide | would he stretch,
And pore upon the brook | that babbles by.

27.

"Hard by yon wood, now smiling | as in scórn,
Muttering his wayward fáncies, he would róve;
Now drooping, woeful-wan, like one forlórn,
Or crazed with cáre, or crossed in hopeless love.

28.

"One morn | I missed him | on the 'customed hill,
Along the heath, and near his favorite trée;
Another came; nor yet beside the rill,
Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood | was he;

29.

"The next, with dirges dúe, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path | we

bòrne.

saw him

Approach and réad | (for thou canst réad) | the lay |
Graved on the stóne | beneath yon aged thòrn."

THE EPITAPH.

Here rests his héad | upon the lap of earth

A yoúth to Fórtune | and to Fáme unknown; Fair Science | frowned not | on his humble birth, And Mélancholy | marked him for her own.

31.

Large was his bounty, and his soul | sincère,
Héaven | did a récompense | as largely sènd;

He gave to Mísery all he hád, a tèar;

He gained from Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.

32.

No farther seek | his mérits | to disclóse,

Or draw his fràilties | from their dread abóde, (There they alike | in trembling hópe | repose,) The bosom of his Fáther | and his Gòd.

THOMAS GRAY.

DICTIONARY LESSON. Find the meaning of curfew, lea, glebe, clarion, jocund, trophies, circumscribed, ingenuous, ignoble, bust, sequestered, tenor, elegy, precincts, and use each word in a sentence of your own.

I. EXERCISES.

1. Take the third line in the first stanza and make all the transpositions you can.

2. Arrange the fourth stanza in the order of prose.

3. Stanzas 16 and 17.

"Their lot forbade [them] to command

the applause of listening senates," etc.

4. Stanza 19. Far is an adjective modifying they understood. 5. Stanzas 24 and 25. "Haply, some hoary-headed swain may say for thee who dost relate," etc.

6. Stanza 30. Put the first two lines in prose order.

1.

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RHETORICAL PAUSES. Stanza 1. Pause after "curfew." (See Part I., Rule 1, p. 85): After knell, before the adjective phrase, of parting day (Rule III): After herd (Rule I): After slowly, before the adverbial phrase, o'er the lea; before and after homeward (Rule II): After world, before the phrase, to darkness, after darkness, before the conjunction and.

In a similar manner require pupils to give the reasons for rhetorical pauses in the five succeeding stanzas.

2. INFLECTION. Stanza 1. Falling inflection on day, and on lea (Rule V., p. 61, Part I.): rising inflection on way, preparatory to the cadence in the last line.

Questions. 1. Why the rising inflection at the end of the 16th stanza? 2. Why the falling inflection at the end of the 22d stanza? 3. Why the rising inflection at the end of the 24th stanza? 3. STRESS. The prevailing stress of this poem is the median. 4. MOVEMENT. The movement is, in general, slow,-in keeping with the grave and reflective character of the thought.

III. CLASS READING.

1. After the preceding analysis, read the poem, line by line, requiring the class to repeat in concert after you.

2. Require each pupil to go upon the platform and read one stanza, subject to criticism by the teacher. Insist upon it that pupils, when reading on the platform, shall raise their eyes from the book and look at the class while repeating the last half of each line. 3. Require the pupils to memorize the poem, and require each pupil to recite one stanza upon the platform.

48. THE ASTRONOMER'S VISION.

Question the class about the pitch, force, stress, and movement, which should prevail in the reading of this piece.

1. God called up from dreams a man into the vestibule of heaven, saying, "Come thou hither and see the glory of my house." And to the servants that stood around his throne he said, "Take him, and undress him from his robes of flesh; cleanse his vision, and put a new breath into his nostrils: only touch not with any change his human heart-the heart that weeps and trembles."

2. It was done; and, with a mighty angel for his guide, the man stood ready for his infinite voyage; and from the terraces of heaven, without sound or farewell, at once they wheeled away into endless space. Sometimes, with the solemn flight of angel wing, they fled through infinite realms of darkness, through wildernesses of death, that divided the worlds of life; sometimes they swept over frontiers, that were quickening under prophetic motions from God.

3. Then, from a distance that is counted only in heaven, light dawned for a time through a sleepy film; by unutterable pace, the light swept to them, they, by unutterable pace, to the light. In a moment the rushing of planets was upon them: in a moment the blazing of suns was around them.

4. Then came eternities of twilight, that revealed, but were not revealed. On the right hand and on the left towered mighty constellations, that by self-repetitions and answers from afar, that by counter-positions, built up triumphal gates, whose architraves, whose archways-horizontal, upright-rested, rose at altitude by spans that seemed ghostly from infinitude. Without

measure were the architraves, past number were the archways, beyond memory the gates.

5. Within were stairs that scaled the eternities below; above was below-below was above, to the man stripped of gravitating body: depth was swallowed up in height insurmountable, height was swallowed up in depth unfathomable. Suddenly, as thus they rode from infinite to infinite, suddenly, as thus they tilted over abysmal worlds, a mighty cry arose-that systems more mysterious, that worlds, more billowy,-other heights and other depths, were coming, were nearing, were at hand.

6. Then the man sighed and stopped, shuddered and wept. His overladen heart uttered itself in tears, and he said, "Angel, I will go no farther. For the spirit of man acheth with this infinity. Insufferable is the glory of God. Let me lie down in the grave and hide me from the persecution of the infinite; for end, I see, there is none."

7. And from all the listening stars that shone around, issued a choral voice-"The man speaks truly: end there is none, that ever yet we heard of." "End is there none?" the angel solemnly demanded; "Is there indeed no end?-and is this the sorrow that kills you?" But no voice answered, that he might answer himself. Then the angel threw up his glorious hands to the heaven of heavens, saying, "End is there none to the universe of God. Lo! also there is no beginning."

Paraphrased from the German by PROFESSOR O. M. MITCHELL. USING WORDS. Write each of the following words in a sentence of your own planets, architraves, altitude, archways.

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