Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
The live-long day, with patient expectation,
To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome:
And when you saw his chariot but appear,
Have you not raised a universal shout,
That Tyber trembled underneath her banks,
To hear the replication of your sounds,
Made in her concave shores?

And do you now put on your best attire?
And do you now cull out a holiday?

And do you now strew flowers in his way,
Who comes in triumph over Pompey's blood?
Begone! run to your houses, fall upon your knees,

Pray to the gods to intermit the plague

That needs must light on this ingratitude!

24. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love?

25. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle

Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime,
Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,
Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime?
Know ye the land of the cedar and vine,

Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever shine;
Where the light wings of Zephyr, oppressed with perfume,
Wax faint o'er the gardens of Gul in her bloom?
Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit,

And the voice of the nightingale never is mute,

Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky,

In color though varied, in beauty may vie,

And the purple of Ocean is deepest in dye;

Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?

'Tis the clime of the East; 'tis the land of the Sun-
Can he smile on such deeds as his children have done?
Oh! wild as the accents of lovers' farewell

Are the hearts which they bear, and the tales which they tell.

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III. SLUR.

LUR is that smooth, gliding, subdued movement of the voice, by which those parts of a sentence of less comparative importance are rendered less impressive to the ear, and emphatic words and phrases set in stronger relief.

2. Emphatic Words, or the words that express the leading thoughts, are usually pronounced with a louder and more forcible effort of the voice, and are often prolonged. But words that are slurred must generally be read in a lower and less forcible tone of voice, more rapidly, and all pronounced nearly alike.

3. Slur must be employed in cases of parenthesis, contrast, repetition, or explanation, where the phrase or sentence is of small comparative importance; and often when qualification of time, place, or manner is made.

4. The Parts which are to be Slurred in a portion of the exercises are printed in Italic letters. Students will first read the parts of the sentence that appear in Roman, and then the whole sentence, passing lightly and quickly over what was first omitted. The slurred portions in unmarked examples will be read in like manner.

EXERCISES IN SLUR.

1. Dismiss, as soon as may be, all angry thoughts.

2. The general, with his head drooping, and his hands leaning on his horse's neck, moved feebly out of the battle.

3. The rivulet sends forth glad sounds, and, tripping o'er its bed of pebbly sands, or leaping down the rocks, seems with continuous laughter to rejoice in its own being.

4. The sick man from his chamber looks at the twisted brooks; and, feeling the cool breath of each little pool, breathes a blessing on the summer rain.

5.

Children are wading, with cheerful cries,

In the shoals of the sparkling brook;

Laughing maidens, with soft, young eyes,

Walk or sit in the shady nook.

6. The calm shade shall bring a kindred calm, and the sweet breeze, that makes the green leaves dance, shall waft a balm to thy sick heart.

7. Ingenious boys, who are idle, think, with the hare in the fable, that, running with SNAILS (so they count the rest of their school-fellows), they shall come soon enough to the post; though sleeping a good while before their starting.

8. Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more; it is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

9. They shall hear my VENGEANCE, that would scorn to LISTEN to the story of my WRONGS. The MISERABLE HIGHLAND DROVER, bankrupt, barefooted, stripped of all, dishonored, and hunted down, because the avarice of others grasped at more than that poor all could pay, shall BURST on them in an AWFUL

CHANGE.

10. Young eyes, that last year smiled in ours,

Now point the rifle's barrel;

And hands, then stained with fruits and flowers,

Bear redder stains of quarrel.

11. No! DEAR AS FREEDOM is, and in my heart's just estimation prized above all price, I would much rather be MYSELF the SLAVE, and WEAR the BONDS, than fasten them on HIM.

12.

The moon is at her full, and, riding high,

Floods the calm fields with light.

The airs that hover in the summer sky

Are all asleep to-night.

13. If there's a power above us-and that there is, all Nature cries aloud through all her works-He must delight in virtue; and that which he delights in must be happy.

14. Here we have butter pure as virgin gold;

And milk from cows that can a tail unfold

With bōvine pride; and new-laid eggs, whose praise

Is sung by pullets with their morning lays;

Trout from the brook; good water from the well;
And other blessings more than I can tell!

15. Ye glittering towns, with wealth and splendor crowned;
Ye fields, where summer spreads profusion round;
Ye lakes, whose vessels catch the busy gale;
Ye bending swains, that dress the flowery vale;
For me your tributary stores combine:
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!
16. The village church, among the trees,

Where first our marriage vows were given,
With merry peals shall swell the breeze,

And point with taper spire to heaven.
17. I said, "Though I should die, I know
That all about the thorn will blow
In tufts of rosy-tinted snow;

18.

19.

And men, through novel spheres of thought
Still moving after truth long sought,

Will learn new things when I am not.”

Think

Of the bright lands within the western main,
Where we will build our home, what time the seas
Weary thy gaze;-there the broad palm-tree shades
The soft and delicate light of skies as fair
As those that slept on Eden;-Nature, there,
Like a gay spendthrift in his flush of youth,
Flings her whole treasure in the lap of Time.-
On turfs, by fairies trod, the Eternal Flora
Spreads all her blooms; and from a lake-like sea
Wooes to her odorous haunts the western wind!
While, circling round and upward from the boughs,
Golden with fruits that lure the joyous birds,
Melody, like a happy soul released,

Hangs in the air, and from invisible plumes
Shakes sweetness down!

Who had not heard

Of Rose, the gardener's daughter? Where was he,
So blunt in memory, so old at heart,

At such a distance from his youth in grief,
That, having seen, forgot? The common mouth,
So gross to express delight, in praise of her
Grew oratory. Such a lord is Love,

And Beauty such a mistress of the world.
20. Beauty--a living presence of the earth,
Surpassing the most fair ideäl forms
Which craft of delicate spirits hath composed
From earth's materials-waits upon my steps;
Pitches her tents before me as I move,

An hourly neighbor. Paradise, and groves
Elysian, Fortunate Fields-like those of old
Sought in the Atlantic main—why should they be
A history only of departed things,

Or a mere fiction of what never was?
For the discerning intellect of man,
When wedded to this goodly universe

In love and holy passion, should find these
A simple produce of the common day.

21. As a rose after a shower, bent down by tear drops, waits for a passing breeze or a kindly hand to shake its branches, that, lightened, it may stand once more upon its stem—so one who is bowed down with affliction longs for a friend to lift him out of his sorrow, and bid him once more rejoice. Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected like April airs upon viölet roots.

22.

The hunting tribes of air and earth
Respect the brethren of their birth;
Nature, who loves the claim of kind,
Less cruel chase to each assigned.

The falcon (faw'kn), poised on soaring wing,
Watches the wild-duck by the spring;
The slow-hound wakes the fox's lair;

The greyhound presses on the hare;

The eagle pounces on the lamb;
The wolf devours the fleecy dam;
Even tiger fell, and sullen bear,
Their likeness and their lineäge spare.