springing up, and running abroad over the earth, and twisting themselves about every little thing upon it that has life, and uniting its being with our being: with a higher meaning do they now live to us, for they have received a higher life from us. A moral sense is given to things; and the materials of earth, which had hitherto seemed made only for homely uses, become teachers to our minds and ministers of good to our spirits.

THE KITTEN AND THE FALLING LEAVES.

THAT way look, my infant, lo!

What a pretty baby-show!

See the kitten on the wall,

Sporting with the leaves that fall

Withered leaves-one, two, and three-
From the lofty elder tree!
Through the calm and frosty air
Of this morning bright and fair,
Eddying round and round they sink
Softly, slowly; one might think,
From the motions that are made,
Every little leaf conveyed
Sylph or fairy hither tending,—
To this lower world descending,
Each invisible and mute,
In his wavering parachute.
-But the kitten, how she starts,

Crouches, stretches, paws, and darts!

ANALYSIS.-2. Name the modifiers of baby-show.
3. on the wall. What does the phrase modify?

5. Give the syntax of leaves.

8. Name the modifiers of morning.

10. Name the object of think.

14. Give the syntax of descending.

15. Give the syntax of each.

17. Parse But and kitten.

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First at one, and then its fellow

Just as light and just as yellow;
There are many now-now'one-
Now they stop, and there are none;
What intenseness of desire

In her upward eye of fire!
With a tiger-leap, half way

Now she meets the coming prey,
Lets it go as fast, and then

Has it in her power again;

Now she works with three or four,
Like an Indian conjuror;

Quick as he in feats of art,

Far beyond in joy of heart.

Were her antics played in the eye
Of a thousand standers-by,
Clapping hands with shout and stare,
What would little Tabby care
For the plaudits of the crowd?
Over-happy to be proud,
Over-wealthy in the treasure
Of her own exceeding pleasure!

'Tis a pretty baby-treat;
Nor, I deem, for me unmeet;
Here, for neither babe nor me,
Other playmate can I see.

ANALYSIS.-19. Parse the word fellow.

20. Give the construction of as, light, and just.

21. Give the construction of one.

25. Parse the word way.

30. Dispose of the words Like and conjuror.

31, 32. Write the lines in prose form, supplying all ellipses.

33. Give the construction of were.

33-37. Analyze these lines.

41. Dispose of 'Tis.

42. What is the meaning of unmeet!

43, 44. Write these lines in prose.

Of the countless living things,

That with stir of feet and wings

(In the sun or under shade,
Upon bough or grassy blade),
And with busy revelings,

Chirp, and song, and murmurings,
Made this orchard's narrow space
And this vale so blithe a place.
Multitudes are swept away,
Never more to breathe the day;
Some are sleeping; some in bands
Traveled into distant lands.

Others slunk to moor and wood,
Far from human neighborhood;
And, among the kinds that keep
With us closer fellowship,
With us openly abide,

All have laid their mirth aside.
-Where is he, that giddy sprite,
Blue-cap, with his colors bright,
Who was blest as bird could be,
Feeding in the apple tree;
Made such wanton spoil and rout,
Turning blossoms inside out;
Hung with head toward the ground,
Fluttered, perched, into a round
Bound himself, and then unbound:
Lithest, gaudiest harlequin!

Prettiest tumbler ever seen!

Light of heart and light of limb;

What is now become of him?

ANALYSIS.-46-51. Point out the predicate of the sentence. 52. What is the syntax of place?

55. Some are sleeping. What figure here?

62. Name the figure in the line.

64. What is the syntax of Blue-cap!

68. Parse inside out.

63-74. Name the modifiers of sprite.

75. is become. What is the modern form?

Lambs that through the mountains wen!
Frisking, bleating merriment,

When the year was in its prime;

They are sobered by this time.

If you look to vale or hill,
If you listen, all is still,
Save a little neighboring rill,
That from out the rocky ground
Strikes a solitary sound.
Vainly glitter hill and plain,
And the air is calm in vain;
Vainly morning spreads the lure
Of a sky serene and pure;
Creature none can she decoy
Into open sign of joy :
Is it that they have a fear
Of the dreary season near?
Or that other pleasures be
Sweeter e'en than gayety?

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ANAI ISIS.-76-79. Lambs. . . . They are sobered, etc. Criticise.

Would inis forın be allowable in prose?

82. Give the construction of save.

83. Dispose of the expression from out.

89. Parse the word none.

91. Give the construction of that.

93. Why be in this line?

94. Dispose of e'en.

99. Give the construction of whatsoe'er,

100. Parse the word sedate.

ANALYSIS.-107. What does the line modify?

108. Parse mine, and show what the line modifies.

110. Dispose of E'en and as.

To what does pair here refer?

115. Parse the words Now and then.

117. Give construction of Pleased. What are the modifiers of Pleased?

121. Dispose of like that.

123. Dispose of Keep and awake.

124-126. What are the modifiers of take?

127. Dispose of Spite and spite.

128 Give the syntax of To gambol. What figure in the line?