4.

5.

Like a form

Of matchless sculpture in her sleep she lay,-
The linen vesture folded on her breast,
And over it her white transparent hands,
The blood still rosy in their tapering nails.
A line of pearl ran through her parted lips,
And in her nostrils, spiritually thin,
The breathing curve was mockingly like life;
And round beneath the faintly tinted skin
Ran the light branches of the azure veins;
And on her cheek the jet lash overlay,
Matching the arches penciled on her brow.
Her hair had been unbound, and falling loose
Upon her pillow, hid her small round ears
In curls of glossy blackness, and about

Her polished neck, scarce touching it, they hung,
Like airy shadows floating as they slept.
'T was heavenly beautiful.

The Saviour raised

Her hand from off her bosom, and spread out
The snowy fingers in his palm, and said,
"Maiden! arise!" and suddenly a flush
Shot o'er her forehead, and along her lips
And through her cheek the rallied color ran;
And the still outline of her graceful form
Stirred in the linen vesture; and she clasped
The Saviour's hand, and, fixing her dark eyes
Full on his beaming countenance,

AROSE!

QUESTIONS. Who was Jairus? 1. Whom did he welcome into his house? 2. What did they say to him of his daughter? 2. What did Jesus say? 3. What did he do as he stood beside her bed? 3. What was the age of the maiden? 5. What did Christ say to her? 5. Did she arise?

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LESSON LXXVI.

Spell and Define.

1. Con-sum-ma'tion, completion of a 4. Im-pend'ing, hanging over.

work.

1. Bribes, gifts to pervert judgment 2. Haz'ard, risk, peril.

3. Do-mes'tic, belonging to home.

3. En-vel'op-ed, surrounded on all sides 3. Co-er'cion, compulsion, force.

5. De-crep'i-tude, infirmity of age.
6. So-lic'i-tude, anxiety.

6. Phi-lan'thro-py, love of mankind
7, Di-vest', to deprive.

8. A-re'na, a place of public contest.
S. Even-tide, the time of evening.

ERRORS. -3. Hurth for hearth; 3. quinch'ed for quench'ed; 3. jin'ed for join'ed 5. voilence for vilo-lence; 6. phi-lan'thro-py for phi-lan'thro-py; 6. pol-er-ti'cian for pol-i-ti'cian; 8, hully for wholly; 8. spiles for spoils.

[The pupil may repeat the rule for modulation, which applies to this piece, and read it accordingly. See Modulation, p. 68.]

1. I AM aware, sir, that their white neighbors desire the absence of the Indians, and if they can find safety and subsistence beyond the Mississippi, I should rejoice exceedingly at their removal, because it would relieve the states of their presence. I would do much to effect a consummation so devoutly to be wished. But let it be by their own free choice, unawed by fear, unseduced by bribes.

2. Let us not compel them, by withdrawing the protection which we have pledged. Theirs must be the pain of departure, and the hazard of the change. They are men, and have

and if all the ties which

the feelings and attachments of men; bind them to their country and their homes, are to be rent asunder, let it be by their own free hand.

3. If they are to leave forever the streams in which they have drank, and the trees under which they have reclined; f the fires are never more to be lighted up in the council-house

NOTES. - a Cher-o-kees; a tribe of Indians formerly living principally in the northern part of Georgia. They are the noblest of the American Indians, and dis tinguished for their progress in the arts of civilized life. They have been removed to the Indian territory, by order of the United States government. b See Indians, p. 31, note b.

of their chiefs, and must be quenched forever upon the domestic hearth, by the tears of the inmates who have there joined the nuptial feast, and the funeral wail; if they are to look for the last time upon the land of their birth which drank up the blood of their fathers, shed in its defense, and is mingled with the sacred dust of children and friends, to turn their aching vision to distant regions, enveloped in darkness and surrounded by dangers, let it be by their own free choice, not by coercion, or a withdrawal of the protection of our plighted faith.

4. They can best appreciate the dangers, and difficulties which beset their path. It is their fate which is impending; and it is their right to judge, while we have no warrant to falsify our promises.

5. It is said that their existence cannot be preserved; that it is the doom of Providence that they must perish. So, indeed, must we all; but let it be in the course of nature, not by the hand of violence. If, in truth, they are now in the decrepitude of age, let us permit them to live out all their days, and die in peace; not bring down their gray hairs in blood to a foreign grave.

6. I know, sir, to what I expose myself. To feel any solicitude for the fate of the Indians, may be ridiculed as false philanthropy, and morbid sensibility. Others may boldly say, "Their blood be upon us," and sneer at scruples as weaknesses, unbecoming the stern character of a politician.

7. If, sir, in order to become such, it is necessary to divest the mind of the principles of good faith and moral obligation, and harden the heart against every touch of humanity, I confess that I am not, and by the blessing of Heaven, will never be, a politician.

It

8. Sir, we cannot wholly silence the monitor within. may not be heard amidst the clashings of the arena, in the tempest and convulsions of political contentions, but its "still small voice" will speak to us, when we meditate alone at eventide; in the silent watches of the night; when we lie

down and when we rise up from a solitary pillow; and in that dread hour, when "not what we have done for ourselves, but what we have done for others," will be our joy and our strength, and when to have secured, even to the poor and despised Indian, a spot of earth upon which to rest his aching head, to have given him but a cup of cold water in charity, will be a greater treasure, than to have been the conqueror of kingdoms, and lived in luxury upon their spoils.

QUESTIONS. Who were the Cherokees? How did they compare with other American Indians? For what are they distinguished? Where were they removed?

ERRORS.-1. Dil'i-gunt for dil'i-gent; 1. sol'umn for sol'emn; 4. skurce for scarce, 4. but'nut for but'ter-nut; 7. patridge for par'tridge; 9. swiftly for swiftly, 10. bär ren for bar'ren.

THE OLD MAN'S COUNSEL.

W. C. BRYANT.

1. AMONG our hills and valleys, I have known

Wise and grave men, who, while their diligent hands
Tended or gathered in the fruits of earth,

Were reverent learners in the solemn school
Of nature. Not in vain to them were sent
Seed-time and harvest, or the vernal shower
That darkened the brown tilth, or snow that beat
On the white winter hills. Each brought, in turn,
Some truth; some lesson on the life of man,

Or recognition of the Eternal Mind,

Who veils his glory with the elements.

2. One such I knew long since, a white-haired man,
Pithy of speech, and merry when he would;
A genial optimist, who daily drew
From what he saw his quaint moralities.
Kindly he held communion, though so old,
With me, a dreaming boy, and taught me much,
That books tell not, and I shall ne'er forget.

3. The sun of May was bright in middle heaven,
And steeped the sprouting forests, the green hills,
And emerald wheat-fields, in his yellow light.
Upon the apple-tree, where rosy buds

4.

5.

Stood clustered, ready to burst forth in bloom,
The robin warbled forth his full, clear note
For hours, and wearied not.

Within the woods,

Whose young and half-transparent leaves scarce cast

A shade, gay circles of anemones

Danced on their stalks; the shad-bush, white with flowers Brightened the glens; the new-leaved butternut,

And quivering poplar, to the roving breeze

Gave a balsamic fragrance.

In the fields,

I saw the pulses of the gentle wind

On the young grass. My heart was touched with joy, At so much beauty, flushing every hour

Into a fuller beauty; but my friend,

The thoughtful ancient, standing at my side,
Gazed on it mildly sad. I asked him why.

6. "Well may'st thou join in gladness," he replied, "With the glad earth, her springing plants and flowers,