Pronounce HERO, here'ro, GLORIOUS, glōre'ri-us, VICTORIOUS, vic-tōre'ri-us. See § 11. For LIBERTY, SOUTHERN, WESTERN, see § 7; SKY, § 21. Sound all the consonants in hosts.

See in Index, BEAUTEOUS, HEAVEN, HURRA, WARE.

Delivery. This noble and spirited poem requires great animation in the delivery. The last half of the fourth stanza and the exclamation "Hurra" should have loud force and high pitch.

What voice shall bid the progress stay

Of truth's victorious car?

What arm arrest the growing day,

Or quench the solar star?

What dastard soul, though stout and strong,
Shall dare bring back the ancient wrong,

Or slavery's guilty night prolong,

And freedom's morning bar?

IV.

The hour of triumph comes apace,
The fated, promised hour,
When earth upon a ransomed race,

Her beauteous gifts shall shower.
Ring, Liberty, thy glorious bell,
Bid high the sacred banner swell,
Let trump on trump the triumph tell,
Of Heaven's avenging power.

V.

The day has come, the hour draws nigh,
We hear the coming car;

Send forth the glad, exulting cry,

Hurra, hurra, hurra!

From every hill, by every sea,

In shouts proclaim the great decree,

"All chains are burst, all men are free!"
Hurra, hurra, hurra!

XXXVII.

MANAGEMENT OF MONEY.

SIR E. BULWER LYTTON.

See in Index, CLERK, FULFILL OF FULFIL, HEARTH, HULKS, JANTY, PRACTICE (vb.) or PRACTISE, AVERNUS, EUCLID, MARSEILLES, UTOPIA, LYTTON.

Delivery. The style, though principally didactic, partakes somewhat of the dramatic element, and should be read in a lively middle tone, with expressive pauses, imitative personation, and changes of pitch in those parts, where supposed characters are represented as speaking. See §§ 34, 40, 49, 51, 52.

1. On the first rule of the art of managing money all preceptors must be agreed. It is told in three words, Horror of Debt. Nurse, cherish, never cavil away the wholesome horror of debt. Man hazards the condition, and loses the virtues of freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view, without anguish and shame, his lapse into the bondage of debt.

2. Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave. If you mock my illustration, if you sneer at the truth it embodies, give yourself no further trouble to learn how to manage your money. Consider yourself doomed; pass on your way with a janty step; the path is facile,paths to Avernus always are.

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3. But if, while I write, your heart, true to the instinct of manhood, responds to my words, if you say, 'Agreed; that which you call the first rule for the management of money, I hold yet more imperative as the necessity to freedom and the lifespring of probity," then advance on your way, assured that wherever it may wind it must ascend. You see but the temple of Honor; close behind it is the temple of Fortune. You will pass through the one to the other.

4. "But," sighs the irresolute youth, whom the eye of the serpent has already charmed, "it is by no means so easy to keep out of debt as it is to write warnings against getting into it." Easy to keep out of debt! Certainly not. Nothing in life worth an effort is easy. Do you expect to know the first six books of Euclid by inspiration?. Even in things the pleasantest, if we wish to succeed we must toil.

5. But think, O young man! of the object I place before you, and then be ashamed of yourself if you still sigh, "Easy to preach, and not easy to practice." I have no interest in the preaching; your interest is immense in the practice. That object not won, your heart has no peace, and your hearth no security. Your conscience itself leaves a door open night and day to the tempter. Night and day, to the ear of a debtor, steal whispers that prompt to the deeds of a felon.

6. Three years ago you admired the rising success of some most respectable man. Where is he now? In the dock, in the jail, in the hulks. What! that

opulent banker, whose plate dazzled princes? or that flourishing clerk who drove to his office the high-stepping horse? The same. And his crime? Fraud and swindling.

7. What demon could urge so respectable a man to So shameful an act? I know not the name of the demon, but the cause of the crime the wretch tells you himself. Ask him: what is his answer? "I got into debt, no way to get out of it but the way which I took; to the dock, to the jail, to the hulks!"

No, my young friend, The bland tradesman Are you poor? Still

8. Easy to keep out of debt! it is difficult. Are you rich? Are you rich? cries, "Pay when you please." your character is as yet without stain, and your character is a property on which you can borrow a trifle. But when you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn. Remember that.

9. Young friend, learn to say No. The worst that the "No" can inflict on you is a privation,

a want, always short of starvation. No young man, with the average health of youth, need be in danger of starving. Be contented. Say No! Keep unscathed your good name. Keep out of peril your honor. Shake hands, brave young friend; we are agreed. You consent to have a horror of debt.

10. Now comes the next danger. You will not incur debt for yourself, but you have a friend. Pythias, your friend, your familiar, the man you like best and see most of, says to you, "Damon, be my security, your name to this bill!" Heaven forbid that I should cry out to Damon, "Pythias means to cheat thee,beware!"

say to Here your

11. But I address to Damon this observation: "Pythias asks thee to guarantee that three, six, or twelve months hence he will pay to another man Dionysius so many pounds sterling." first duty as an honest man is, not to Pythias, but to Dionysius.

12. Suppose some accident happen, one of those accidents which, however impossible it may seem to your Pythias, constantly happen to the Pythiases of other Damons who draw bills on the bank of Futurity;

suppose that the smut or the rain spoil the crops on which Pythias relies, or the cargoes he expects from Marseilles, California, Utopia, go down to the bottomless seas; — Dionysius must come upon you! Can you pay to Dionysius what you pledge yourself to pay to him in spite of those accidents?

13. If you can, and if you value Pythias more than the money, give the money, and there is an end of it; but if you cannot give the money, do not sign the bill. Do not become what, in rude truth, you do become a knave and a liar if you guarantee to do what you know that you cannot do should the guarantee be exacted. Whatever you lend, let it be your money, and not your name.

14. With honor, poverty is a Noble; without honor, wealth is a Pauper. But if a usurer knock at your door, and show you a bill with your name as a promise to pay, and the bill he dishonored, pray, what becomes of your name? "My name!" falters Damon, "I am but a surety,-go to Pythias."-"Ah! Pythias has disappeared!"-Pay the bill, Damon, or goodby to your honor.

15. Never borrow where there is a chance, however remote, that you may not be able to repay. Never lend what you are not prepared to give. Never guarantee for another what you cannot fulfill, if the other should fail. Guided by these rules, you start in life with this great advantage: whatever you have, be it little or much, is your own. Rich or poor, you start as a freeman, resolved to preserve in your freedom the noblest condition of your being as a man.