Bozzaris! with the storied brave, Greece nurtured in her glory's time, Nor bade the dark hearse wave its plume Like torn branch from death's leafless tree, In sorrow's pomp and pageantry, The heartless luxury of the tomb. But she remembers thee as one And she, the mother of thy boys, The memory of her buried joys, – And even she who gave thee birth, Will by their pilgrim-circled hearth, Talk of thy doom without a sigh; For thou art Freedom's now, and Fame's; One of the few, the immortal names, That were not born to die. LESSON XXIV. EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION. g:-bag, beg, keg, egg, plague, vague, rogue, brogue, guide, gear, gird, gig, ragged, craggy, anger, finger. THERE was a sound of revelry by night; The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again; And all went merry as a marriage-bell But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye not hear it? No: 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street: On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet: But hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier, than before! Arm! arm! it is! it is!. the cannon's opening roar! Within a windowed niche of that high hall, Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain: he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear; And, when they smiled because he deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well, Which stretched his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell: He rushed into the field, and foremost fighting, fell. Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated: who could guess If ever more should meet those mutual eyes, Since upon night so sweet such awful morn could rise? And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, Roused up the soldier, ere the morning star; And wild and high the "Cameron's gathering" rose! With the fierce native daring, which instils And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears! And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Grieving if aught inanimate e'er grieves Over the unreturning brave, alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow, In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valor, rolling on the foe, And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low! Last noon beheld them full of lusty life; - The midnight brought the signal sound of strife; The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse, friend, foe,-in one red burial blent! LESSON XXV. age, cage, page, rage, wage, huge, jar, gem, june, refuge, divulge, exchange. Lochiel's Warning. CAMPBELL. WIZARD AND LOCHIEL. Wizard. LOCHIEL, Lochiel, beware of the day When the lowlands shall meet thee in battle array ! They rally, they bleed, for their kingdom and crown; Lochiel. Go preach to the coward, thou death-telling seer! Wizard. Ha! laugh'st thou, Lochiel, my vision to scorn? Proud bird of the mountain, thy plume shall be torn! Say, rushed the bold eagle exultingly forth From his home in the dark-rolling clouds of the north? But down let him stoop from his havoc on high! the spoiler is nigh. Why flames the far summit? Why shoot to the blast |