When naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, While his harp rung symphonious, a hermit began ; No more with himself, or with nature at war, He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man. 2. And darkness and doubt are now fleeing away; The bright and the balmy effulgence of morn. On the cold cheek of death, smiles and roses are blending, DEPARTURE OF THE YEAR. ANON. 1. Ŏ weep | for the earth | ănd the children of men! Awake the sad music of mountain and glen! Pour out the deep voice of lament on the blast, down to the grave of the past! 2. Lament! for the year, with its promise of bliss, 3. Rejoice! for the day of redemption draws nigh! EXERCISE V. THE FOX AND THE CROW. JANE TAYLOR. Anapestic and Iambic measures. The first two lines and the fourth in the first stanza, commence with an iambic; all the other feet are anapestic. 1. 2. 3. The fox and the crow, In prōse, | Ĭ well knōw, Măny good little girls | căn rehearse; Perhaps it will tell, Pretty nearly as well, If we try the same fa | blě ín vērse. In a dairy, a crow, Having ventured to go, Some food for her young ones to seek, Flew up in the trees, With a fine piece of cheese, Which she joyfully held in her beak. A fox that lived nigh, To the tree saw her fly, And to share in the prize made a vow; For having just dined, He for cheese felt inclined, Dactylic measure. EXERCISE VI. STAR OF THE EAST. - HEBER. The first line and the third of each stanza close with a trochee, and the second and fourth, with an additional long syllable. 1. Brightest ănd | best of the | sōns of the | mōrning, Dawn on our | dārkness ănd | lēnd us thine | aïd; QUESTIONS. In what measure is exercise fifth? Of what do the lines consist? What kind of measure is exercise sixth? How do the lines end? Of what does dactylic measure consist? How is it accented" Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. 2. Cold on his cradle, the dew-drops are shining; 3. Say, shall we yield him, in costly devotion, Gems of the mountain, and pearls of the ocean, 4. Vainly we offer each ample oblation; Vainly with gold would his favor secure; The following stanza, though not strictly tribrach, may be se read as to give a good specimen of that measure by closing the third line and the seventh with an additional long syllable, and pronouncing all other syllables in the stanza with an equally short puantity. Come, thou Al | mighty King, Help us thỹ năme to sing, Help us to praise; Father all glorious, O'er ǎll victorious, Come, and reign | Ŏvěr us, QUESTION. How may the above stanza be made to illustrate tribrach measure? *F'dom, the country of the Edomites, about eighty miles east of Jerusalem. EXERCISE VII. A SUMMER-EVENING MEDITATION.- BARBAULD. Iambic measure. Each line has five feet. 1. 'Tis past! The sul | try ty | rant of the south Has spent his short-lived rage; | more grate | ful hours 2. 3. Move silent on;- the skies no more repel The dazzled sight, but with mild, maiden beams Fair Venus shines E'en in the eve of day, with sweetest beam 'Tis now the hour, When Contemplation from her sunless haunts, - - QUESTIONS. What measure is exercise seventh? How many feet in each line What kind of verse is it? * Barbauld, (Anna Letitia Aikin,) a pleasing English writer, born in 1743, and died at the age of eighty-two. ↑ Di'an, (Diana,) the moon, or the goddess said to guide the chariot of the moon, Eve, evening personified. Hes-pe'ri-an gar'den, allusion is here made to a celebrated garden in heathen mythology, situated at the west, and said to have abounded with golden apple, and other fruits of the most delicious kind. 4. Of unpierced woods, where, wrapt in solid shade, From what pure wells Of milky light, what soft o'erflowing urn, these friendly lam Forever streaming o'er the azure deep, To point our path, and light us to our home? And, silent as the foot of time, fulfill Their destined courses! Nature's self is hushed, 5. How deep the silence, yet how loud the praise! A tongue in every star, that talks with man |