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Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word,
And in its hollow tones are heard

The thanks of millions yet to be.

7. Bozzaris! with the storied brave

Greece nurtured in her glory's time,
Rest thee! there is no prouder grave,
Even in her own proud clime.

We tell thy doom without a sigh,
For thou art Freedom's now, and Fame's—
One of the few, the immortal names,

That were not born to die.

Fitz-Greene Halleck.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. Marco Bozzaris (bot'-sä-ris) (killed August 20, 1823, in an attack which he led upon the advancing Turks near Missolonghi). 'Suliote" (dwellers near the fortress of Suli [soo'le], in the south of Turkey in Europe). "Platæa's day" (victory gained by the Greeks under Pausanias over the Persians under Mardonius, 479 B. C.). "Moslem slain "why were the Turks called "Moslem"? (= Mussulmans = Mohammedans).

II. Sup'-pli-ançe, eon'-quer-or (kōn'kĕr-ēr), steel, häunt'-ed, sen'trieş, eom'-rădeş, ghåst'-ly, kněll (něl), pròph'-et, nûr'-tured.

III. Transpose the 7th stanza into prose ("Bozzaris! rest thee with the storied brave (that) Greece nurtured in her glory's time,” etc.). IV. Trophies, "signet ring," "haunted air," "banquet song," "storied brave."

What allusion in "blessed seals

V. What flowers close at set of sun? that close the pestilence"? (Revelation viii.).

LXI. GIANT DESPAIR.

1. But, by this time, the waters were greatly risen; by reason of which the way of going back was very dangerous. Then I thought that it is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out. Yet they adventured to go back; but it was so dark, and

the flood so high, that in their going back they had like to have been drowned nine or ten times. Neither could they, with all the skill they had, get again to the stile that night.

2. Wherefore, at last, lighting under a little shelter, they sat down there till daybreak; but, being weary, they fell asleep. Now there was, not far from the place where they lay, a castle, called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair; and it was in his grounds they now were sleeping. Wherefore, he, getting up in the morning early, and walking up and down in his fields, caught Christian and Hopeful asleep in his grounds.

3. Then, with a grim and surly voice, he bade them awake, and asked them whence they were, and what they did in his grounds. They told him they were pilgrims, and that they had lost their way. Then said the giant: “You have this night trespassed on me by trampling and lying on my ground; and therefore you must go along with me." So they were forced to go, because he was stronger than they. They also had but little to say, for they knew themselves in a fault.

4. The giant drove them before him, and put them into his castle, into a very dark dungeon. Here, then, they lay from Wednesday morning till Saturday night, without one bit of bread, or drop of drink, or light, or any one to ask how they did. They were therefore here in evil case, and were far from friends and acquaintance. Now, in this place Christian had double sorrow, because it was through his unadvised counsel that they were brought into this distress.

5. Now, Giant Despair had a wife, and her name was Diffidence. So, when he was gone to bed, he told his wife what he had done: to wit, that he had taken a

couple of prisoners and cast them into his dungeon for trespassing on his grounds. Then he asked her, also, what he had best to do further to them? So she asked him what they were, whence they came, and whither they were bound? and he told her. Then she counseled him that, when he arose in the morning, he should beat them without mercy.

6. So, when he arose, he getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel, and goes down into the dungeon to them, and there first falls to rating of them as if they were dogs, although they gave him never a word of distaste. Then he falls upon them, and beats them fearfully, in such sort that they were not able to help themselves, or turn them upon the floor. This done, he withdraws, and leaves them there to condole their misery and to mourn under their distresses.

7. So all that day they spent their time in nothing but sighs and bitter lamentations.

8. The next night she talked with her husband about them further; and, understanding that they were yet alive, did advise him to counsel them to make away with themselves. So, when morning was come, he goes to them in a surly manner, as before, and perceiving them to be very sore with the stripes that he had given them the day before, he told them that, since they were never like to come out of that place, their only way would be forthwith to make an end of themselves, either with knife, halter, or poison.

9. "For why," said he, "should you choose life, seeing it is attended with so much bitterness?" But they desired him to let them go. With which he looked ugly upon them, and, rushing to them, had doubtless made an

end of them himself, but that he fell into one of his fits; for he sometimes, in sunshiny weather, fell into fits, and lost for a time the use of his hand. Wherefore he withdrew, and left them, as before, to consider what to do. Then did the prisoners consult between themselves whether it was best to take his counsel or no. And thus they began to discourse:

10. "Brother," said Christian, "what shall we do? The life that we now live is miserable! For my part, I know not whether it is better to live thus, or to die out of hand. My soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than life, and the grave is more easy for me than this dungeon! Shall we be ruled by the giant?"

11. Said Hopeful: "Indeed, our present condition is dreadful; and death would be far more welcome to me than thus forever to abide. But let us consider, the lord of the country to which we are going hath said, ‘Thou shalt do no murder,' no, not to another man's person. Much more, then, are we forbidden to take his counsel to kill ourselves.

12. "Besides, he that kills another can but commit murder upon his body; but for one to kill himself is to kill body and soul at once. And moreover, my brother, thou talkest of ease in the grave; but hast thou forgotten the hell, whither, for certain, the murderers go? For 'no murderer hath eternal life,' etc. And let us consider, again, that all law is not in the hand of Giant Despair. Others, so far as I can understand, have been taken by him as well as we, and yet have escaped out of his hands.

13. "Who knows but that God, who made the world, may cause that Giant Despair may die; or that, at some

time or other, he may forget to lock us in; or that he may, in a short time, have another of his fits before us, and may lose the use of his limbs? And if ever that should come to pass again, for my part, I am resolved to pluck up the heart of a man and to try my utmost to get from under his hand. I was a fool that I did not try to do it before; but, however, my brother, let us be patient and endure a while.

14. "The time may come that may give us a happy release. But let us not be our own murderers." With these words Hopeful at present did moderate the mind of his brother. So they continued together in the dark that day in their sad and doleful condition.

John Bunyan.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. Have you read "The Pilgrim's Progress" (from which this extract is made)? Christian and Hopeful have strayed over the stile into the wrong path, and have lost their way.

II. Très-passed, ae-quaint'-ançe, griev'-ous, dun'-geon (-jun), pergeiv'-ing, a-mazed', priş'-on-er (priz'n-er), jū-ris-die'-tion, både (băd), Wědneş'-day (wènz'da), eoun'-sel (and eoun'-çil), eoŭ'-ple (kŭp'l).

III. What, whence, and whither-with what two letters do these words begin? Name some other words used in asking questions that begin with the same letters (e. g., why, when, etc.). Note the relation of the sentences, "So when he was gone," etc., "Then he asked her," etc. (then points out, and when refers). Find other words beginning with the letters th that point out—e. g., this (which ?), that (what?), thou (who?), thither (whither ?)——— and give the corresponding reference- or question-words.

IV. Stile, surly, condole, celestial, “in evil case."

V. This is an allegory or continued metaphor-Christian life represented as a pilgrimage; its trials, as giants, dungeons, etc. Note the fact that their bewilderment at being lost occasions despair (figured as a giant); they are filled with doubt; Diffidence (distrust in one's powers) urges on Despair (utter loss of courage and hope), which afflicts them with many blows, so that they sigh and lament. In their diffidence and despair they debate the question of suicide (8 to 13). "In sunshiny weather he fell into fits" (in sunshiny, cheerful moods of the soul, despair is powerless).