XXXVIII. TO A WATERFOWL. "BEHOLD the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?"-St. Matt. vi., 24, 34. With what adjectives or verbs are the following abstract nouns connected. WHITHER' 'midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast- Lone-wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, And soon that toil shall end; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest,5 Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven TO A SKY LARK. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight 1. With what word is whither directly connected? 2. Put this whole verse into prose order. 3. What is the construction of this line? 6. "The very rhythm of the stanzas To a Waterfowl,' gives the impression of its flight. Like the bird's sweeping wing, they float with a calm and ma 255 BRYANT. We see that 'cold thin jestic cadence to the ear. 'He who, from zone to zone,' &c. Tuckerman's Thoughts on the Poets. 7. Natural order of the whole verse? XXXIX. TO A SKY LARK. "NEITHER childhood nor manhood can hear birds of song with indifference. Their notes are everywhere a large addition to human gratification, and become connected with the sweetest remembrances of the most joyous and impressible season of our life. They are usually small birds, and seem to be indestructible; for although cultivation, as it spreads, drives off many other species, yet by supplying these with more of the food they like best, they multiply from its abundance; and wherever gardens, fields or trees appear, some classes of these rural musicians are sure to be part of their feathered inhabitants. Of these, England possesses a considerable share."Turner's Sacred History of the World. ETHEREAL minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth, where cares abound? Mount daring warbler! that love-prompted strain Leave to the nightingale her shady wood; WORDSWORTH. XL. THE HOUR OF DEATH. "MEN fear death as children fear to go into the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. * * * He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and, therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death." -Bacon's Essays. LEAVES have their time to fall, And flowers to wither' at the North wind's breath, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death! Day is for mortal care, Eve for glad meetings round the joyous hearth, We know when moons shall wane, When summer birds from far shall cross the sea, Is it when spring's first gale Comes forth to whisper where the violets lie? Thou art where billows foam; Thou art where music melts upon the air; Thou art where friend meets friend, Beneath the shadow of the elm to rest; Thou art where foe meets foe, and trumpets rend the 2. What is stars the nom, to? 1. What governs this verb in the infinitive mood? "UPON me lies a burden which I cannot shift upon any other human creature-the burden of duties unfulfilled, words unspoken, or spoken violently and untruly; of holy relationships neglected; of days wasted for ever; of evil thoughts once cherished, which are ever appearing now as fresh as when they were first admitted into the heart; of talents cast away; of affections in myself, or in others, trifled with; of light within turned to darkness. So speaks the conscience; so speaks or has spoken the conscience of each man.”. Maurice on the Lord's Prayer. All this it tells, and could I trace The lights and shades, the joy and pain, All-but that freedom of the mind Which hath been more than wealth to me; 1. What? 2. Another word for haply. 3. Past, what? 4 MOORE. 4. What is round meant to be joined with? N.B. Fontenelle is the person alluded to in the first verse. Franklin's saying that he would be glad to live his life over again if he had the power to make amendments in the second edition, was much more sensible. II. WHAT IS PRAYER? "THE prayers of men have saved cities and kingdoms from ruin: prayer hath raised dead men to life, hath stopped the violence of fire, shut the mouths of wild beasts, hath altered the course of nature, caused rain in Egypt, and drought in the sea; it made the sun to go from west to east, and the moon to stand still, and rocks and mountains to walk; and it cures diseases without physic, and makes physic to do the work of nature, and nature to do the work of grace, and grace to do the work of God; and it does miracles of accident and event; and yet prayer, that does all this, is, of itself, nothing but an ascent of the mind to God, a desiring things fit to be desired, and an expression of this desire to God as we can, and as becomes us. And our unwillingness to pray is nothing else but a not desiring what we ought passionately to long for, or, if we do desire, it is a choosing rather to miss our satisfaction and felicity than to ask for it."-Jeremy Taylor. Derivations. Sincere. 4 Etymology. Hidden. Unexpressed. Sublimest. Majesty. Life. Vital. Trod. Lieth. Syntax. Soul's. That. But, 2 v. 4 1. Fellowship. |