A wood like that enchanted grove, Which the first stroke of coming strife 15. So dense, so still, the Austrians stood, Opposed to these, a hovering band, 25. Peasants, whose new found strength had broke Marshaled once more at freedom's call, 35. And now the work of life and death Yet, while the Austrians held their ground, 45. How could they rest within their graves, And leave their homes the homes of slaves? It must not be: this day, this hour, Few were the numbers she could boast; Unmarked he stood amid the throng, Till you might see with sudden grace, And by the uplifting of his brow, Tell where the bolt would strike, and how. "Make way for Liberty!" he cried; Ten spears he swept within his grasp : Rout, ruin, panic, scattered all : 85. An earthquake could not overthrow A city with a surer blow. Thus Switzerland again was free; Thus Death made way for Liberty! MONTGOMERY. QUESTIONS.— When, and between whom did the battle of Lempach take place? How were the Austrians drawn up? What was the necessity for the self-sacrifice of Winkelried? How did it result? Is war justifiable ?. ARTICULATION. Articulate the d and t clearly, in words like the following: thou-sands, not thou-sans: dust, not duss: friends, not frien's: points, not poince: con-flict, not con-flic: ground, not groun: found, not foun: must, not mus: field, not fiel: dear-est, not dear-es. SPELL AND DEFINE. - 1. Liberty: 7. assaults: 14. startle, hideous; 18. projected: 23. hovering: 27. forged: 62. rumination. LESSON CII. RULE. Give the poetic pauses their appropriate prominence. In most of the following lines, the cesura is very decidedly marked. Words to be Spelled and Defined. 1. Beak. n. the bill of a bird. 10. Wri'-thing, p. twisting. 25. Wing'-lets, n. little wings. Fledg'-ed, p. furnished with feathers. 38. Cleav'-ing, a. splitting, dividing. THE AMERICAN EAGLE. 1. THERE's a fierce gray bird, with a bending beak, That nurses her brood where the cliff flowers blow, 5. That sits where the air is shrill and bleak, And ruffled, and stained, while loose and bright, 10. Round her serpent neck, that is writhing and bare, Is a crimson collar of gleaming hair, Like the crest of a warrior, thinned in fight, And shorn, and bristling. See her! where She sits, in the glow of the sun-bright air,' 15. With wing half poised, and talons bleeding, And kindling eye, as if her prey 20. Had suddenly been snatched away, Of the thunderer's bird, Calling out to her god in a clear, wild scream, As she mounts to his throne, and unfolds in his beam; While her young are laid out in his rich, red blaze, 25. And their winglets are fledged in his hottest rays. Proud bird of the cliff! where the barren yew springs, She screams! She's away! over hilltop and flood, 30. Over valley and rock, over mountain and wood, That bird is abroad in the van of her brood! 'Tis the bird of our banner, the free bird that braves, Rides with the thunderer in his blazing march, 50. And sails around the skies, and o'er the rolling deeps, QUESTIONS. NEAL What is the emblem of our country? Describe the What is What is the nominative to "soars" in the 46th line? What to "broods" PRONUNCIATION. - Fièrce, not fêrce: bird, not bud: crim-son, pro. SPELL AND DEFINE. · 4. Perpetual: 15. poised: 16. prey: 28 LESSON CIII. RULE. Let the pupil stand at a distance from the teacher, and then try to read so loud and distinctly that the teacher may hear each syllable. [Extract from an address delivered at the celebration of the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843] 1. FEW topics are more inviting, or more fit for philosophical discussion, than the action and influence of the New World upon the Old; or the contributions of America to Europe. 2. Her obligations to Europe for science and art, laws, literature, and manners, America acknowledges as she ought, with respect and gratitude. And the people of the United States, descendants of the English stock, grateful for the treasures of knowledge derived from their English ancestors, acknowledge, also, with thanks and filial regard, that among those ancestors, under the culture of Hampden and Sidney, and other assiduous friends, that seed of popular liberty first germinated, which, on our soil, has shot up to its full hight, until its branches over shadow all the land. If she has 3. But America has not failed to make returns. not canceled the obligation, or equaled it by others of like weight, she has, at least, made respectable advances, and some approaches toward equality. And she admits, that, standing in the midst of civilized nations, and in a civilized age, a nation among nations, there is a high part which she is expected to act, for the general advance of human interests and human welfare. 4. American mines have filled the mints of Europe with the precious metals. The productions of the American soil and climate, have poured out their abundance of luxuries for the tables of the rich, and of necessaries for the sustenance of the poor. Birds and animals of beauty and value, have been added to the European stocks; and transplantations from the transcendent and unequaled riches of our forests, have mingled |