9. Pure tone. O Freedom, thou art not, as poets dréam, Orotund. 10. Loud. 11. . A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, A bearded màn, Armed to the teeth, art thou; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wàrs; thy massive limbs Once more unto the brèach, dear friends, once mòre, Or close the wall up with our English dèad! Loud. But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Very Loud. On, ON, you noblest English, Whose blood is fetched from fathers of wàr-proof! Have, in these parts, from morn till èven fought, Quick and I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Tone of The one with yawning made reply: Indifference. "What have we seen?-Not much have I! Trees, meadows, mountains, groves, and streams, Blue sky and clouds, and sunny gleams." Animated tone. The other, smiling, said the same; But with face transfigured and eye of flàme: "Trees, meadows, mountains, groves, and streams! Blue sky and clouds, and sunny gleams!" 12. Gradually How soft the music of those village bèlls, softer. Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet! now dying all away, Gradually Now pealing loud again, and louder still, louder. Clear and sonorous, as the gàle comes on. 13. Gradually Gradually Loud. 11. Soft Orotund. Ever, as on they bore, more loud, The clans' shrill gathering they could hear,- Father of earth and heaven! I call thy nàme! One deeper prayer, 't was that no cloud might lower On my young fàme!-O hèar! God of eternal power! Loud Oro- Now for the fight-now for the cànnon peal— Forward-through blood and toil and cloud and fire! tund. Glorious the shout, the shòck, the crash of stèel, On them, hussars!-Now give them rein and hèel; Earth cries for blood,-in thùnder on them wheel! seal! "NOTE IX. IMITATIVE MODULATION. OTHING is more natural than to imitate, by the sound of the voice, the quality of the sound or noise which any xternal object makes, and to form its name accordingly. A tain bird is termed the cuckoo, from the sound which it emits. en one sort of wind is said to whistle, and another to roar; a serpent is said to hiss, a fly to buzz, and falling timber to when a stream is said to flow, and hail to rattle,—the analtween the word and the thing signified is plainly discern But imitation is not confined to single words. The works 10. oetical and imaginative writers abound in passages which their melody suggest their meaning. These passages must, om their very nature, receive the interpretation of the voice to convey their full force. The following examples are selected, upon which the pupil may practice in making the sound an echo of the sense. 1. THE POWER OF WORDS. Words are instruments of mùsic; an ignorant man uses them for jargon; but when a master touches them they have unexpected life and soul. Some words sound out like drùms; some breathe memories sweet as flùtes; some call like a clarionèt; some shout a charge like trùmpets; some are sweet as children's talk; others rich as a mother's answering back. 2. A DRUM. The double, double, double beat Of the thundering drum Cries, Hark! the fòes come: 3. WAR AND PEACE. The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar, 4. A GIANT. With sturdy steps came stalking on his sight 5. RUSHING OF THE TIDE. When the tide rushes from her rumbling caves, The rough rock ròars; tumultuous boil the waves. 6. HUM OF INSECTS. The shard-borne bèetle with his drowsy hums 7. HARSH SOUNDS. On a sudden open fly The infernal gates, and on their hinges grate 8. HARMONIOUS SOUNDS. Heaven opened wide Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges turning. 9. MOVEMENTS OF MONSTERS. Part huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, 10. SURGES: As raging seas are wont to roar, When wintry storm his wrathful wreck does threat, The rolling billows beat the ragged shòre. 11. FELLING TREES. Loud sounds the àx, redoubling strokes on stròkes ; On all sides round the forest hurls her oaks Headlong. Deep echoing groan the thickets hewn, Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder dòwn. 12. SOUNDS HEARD IN THE COUNTRY. Down the rough slope the ponderous wagon rings; 13. LABORIOUS AND IMPETUOUS MOTION. With many a weary step and many a groan 14. LANGUAGE COMPARED TO AN ORGAN. O, how our organ can speak with its many and wonderful vòices! Play on the soft lute of love, blow the loud trumpet of war, Sing with the high sesquiáltro, or, drawing its full diapason, Shake all the air with the grand storm of its pedals and stòps. 15. BOISTEROUS AND GENTLE SOUNDS. 16. THE WITCHES' CALDRON. For a charm of powerful trouble 17. POWER OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Now clear, pure, hard, bright, and one by one, like to hail stones, Short words fall from his lips fast as the first of a shòwer,— Dance the elastic Dactylics in musical cadences on; condas, Roll overwhelmingly onward the sesquipedalian words. |