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BUGLE SONG.1

The splendor falls on castle walls,
And snowy summits old in stōry;
The long light shakes across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying:
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying!

O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,

And thinner, clearer, farther going!

O sweet and far, from cliff and scar,

The horns of Elf-land faintly blowing!
Blow! let us hear the purple glens replying:
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying!

O love, they die in yon rich sky;

They faint on hill, or field, or river:

Our echoes roll from soul to soul,

And grow forever and forever.

Blow, bugle, blow! set the wild echoes flying,

And answer, echoes, answer-dying, dying, dying!

4. The Aspirated Tone is an expulsion of the breath more or less strong-the words, or portions of them, being spoken in a whisper. It is used to express amazement, fear, terror, horror, revenge, and remorse; as,

1. How ill this taper burns!—

Ha! who comes here?—

Cold drops of sweat hang on my trembling flesh,
My blood grows chilly, and I freeze with horror!

2. The ancient Earl, with stately grace,
Would Clara on her palfrey place,

And whisper, in an under-tone,

"Let the hawk stoop, his prey is flown."

3. And the deep thunder peal on peal afar;

And near, the beat of the alarming drum

Roused up the soldier ere the morning star;

1 The Bugle Song is a most happy combination of the pure tone and the orotund.

While thronged the citizens with terror dumb,

Or whispering with white lips-"The foe! they come, they come!" 5. The Guttural is a deep under-tone, used to express hatred, contempt, and loathing. It usually occurs on the emphatic words; as,

Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!

Thou cold-blooded slave!

Thou wear a lion's hide?

Doff it, for shame, and hang

A calf-skin on those recreant limbs.
Thou stand'st at length before me undisguised,
Of all earth's groveling crew the most accursed!
Thou worm! thou viper!-to thy native earth
Return! Away! Thou art too base for man
To tread upon. Thou scum! thou reptile!
Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave,

Whose treason, like a deadly blight,
Comes o'er the councils of the brave,

And blasts them in their hour of might!
May life's unblessèd cup for him

Be drugged with treacheries to the brim-
With hopes, that but allure to fly,

With joys, that vanish while he sips,
Like Dead-Sea fruits, that tempt the eye,
But turn to ashes on the lips!

His country's curse, his children's shame,
Outcasts of virtue, peace, and fame,
May he, at last, with lips of flame
On the parched desert thirsting die—
While lakes that shōne in mockery nigh
Are fading off, untouched, untasted,
Like the once glōrious hopes he blasted!
And, when from earth his spirit flies,
Just Prophet, let the damned-one dwell
Full in the sight of Paradise,

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell!

A plague upon them! wherefore should I curse them?
Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's groan,

I would invent as bitter-searching terms,
As curst, as harsh, and horrible to hear,
Delivered strongly through my fixed teeth,
With full as many signs of deadly hate,
As lean-faced Envy in her loathsome cave:
My tongue should stumble in mine earnest words;
Mine eyes shall sparkle like the beaten flint;
My hair be fixed on end, as one distract;
Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban:
And even now my burdened heart would break,
Should I not curse them. Poison be their drink!
Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste!
Their sweetest shade, a grove of cypress trees!
Their chiefèst prospect, murdering basilisks!
Their softest touch, as smart as lizard's stings;
Their music frightful as the serpent's hiss;
And boding screech-owls make the concert full!
All the foul terrors in dark-seated hell.

6. The Tremulous Tone, or tremor, consists of a tremulous iteration, or a number of impulses of sound of the least assignable duration. It is used in excessive grief, pity, plaintiveness, and tenderness; in an intense degree of suppressed excitement, or satisfaction; and when the voice is enfeebled by age.

The Tremulous Tone is not applied throughout the whōle of an extended passage, but only on selected emphatic words, as otherwise the effect would be monotonous. In the second of the following examples, where the tremor of age is supposed to be joined with that of supplicating distress, the tremulous tone may be applied to every accented or heavy syllable capable of prolongation, which is the case with all except those of pity and shortest; but even these may receive it in a limited degree.

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O love, remain! It is not yet near day!
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;

Nightly she sings in yon pomegranate-tree:
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.

2. Pity the sorrows of a poor old man,

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Whose trembling limbs have bōrne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortèst span:

O give relief, and Heaven will bless your store.

I have lived long enough: my way of life
Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf;
And that which should accompany old age,
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,
I must not look to have; but in their stead,
Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath,
Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.

IV.
RATE.

ATE1 refers to movement in reading and speaking, and is QUICK, MODERATE, or SLOW.

(Quick Beate Moderate

Slow

2. Quick Rate is used to express joy, mirth, confusion, violent anger, and sudden fear; as,

1. Away! away! our fires stream bright
Along the frozen river,

1 Exercise on Rate.-For a general exercise, select a sentence, and deliver it as slowly as may be possible without drawling. Repeat the sentence with a slight increase of rate, until you shall have reached a rapidity of utterance at which dis

tinct articulation ceases. Having done this, reverse the process, repeating slower and slower. Thus you may acquire the ability to increase and diminish rate at pleasure, which is one of the most important elements of good reading and speaking.

And their ǎrrowy sparkles of brilliant light
On the forest branches quiver.

2. Away! away to the rocky glen,

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Where the deer are wildly bounding!
And the hills shall echo in gladness again,
To the hunter's bugle sounding.

The lake has burst! The lake has burst!

Down through the chasms the wild waves flee:
They gallop ǎlong with a roaring song,

Away to the eager awaiting sea!

4. And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed,
The mustering squadron, and the clattering car
Went pouring forward with impetuous speed,
And swiftly forming in the ranks of war.

3. Moderate Rate is used in ordinary assertion, narration, and description; in cheerfulness, and the gentler forms of the emotions; as,

1. No life worth naming ever comes to good,
If always nourished on the self-same food:
The creeping mite may live so if he please,
And feed on Stilton till he turns to cheese;
But cool Magendie proves beyond a doubt,
If mammals try it, that their eyes drop out.
No reasoning natures find it safe to feed,
For their sole diet, on a single creed;

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It spoils their eyeballs while it spares their tongues,
And starves the heart to feed the noisy lungs.

When the first larvæ on the elm are seen,

The crawling wretches, like its leaves, are green;
Ere chill October shakes the latest down,

They, like the foliage, change their tint to brown:
On the blue flower a bluer flower you spy,
You stretch to pluck it 't is a butterfly:
The flattened tree-toads so resemble bark,
They're hard to find as Ethiops in the dark:
The woodcock, stiffening to fictitious mud,
Cheats the young sportsman thirsting for his blood.