With scenes of patient toil and noble strife,
Undimmed by doubt or shame.

6. As if the lofty purpose of his soul
Expression would betray,

The high resolve ambition to control
And thrust her crown away.

7. O, it was.well in marble, firm and white,
To carve our hero's form,

Whose angel guidance was our strength in fight,
Our star amid the storm!

8. And it is well to place his image there
Beneath the dome he blest;

Let meaner spirits, who its councils share,
Revere that silent guest!

9. Let us go up with high and sacred love
To look on his pure brow,

And as with solemn grace he points above,
Renew the patriot's vow.

LESSON L...

DEATH OF NAPOLEON."

MCLELLAN.

1. WILD was the night, yet a wilder night
Hung round the soldier's pillow;

n his bosom there waged a fiercer fight
Than the fight on the wrathful billow,

2. A few fond mourners were leaning by,
The few that his stern heart cherished;

a This statue has recently been placed in the east park of the Capitol at Washington. b Napoleon Bonaparte died of a cancer in the stomach, on the island of St Helena, in 1821.

They knew by his glazed and unearthly eye,
That life had nearly perished.

3. They knew by his awful and kingly look,
By the order hastily spoken,

That he dreamed of days when the nation shook
And the nation's hosts were broken.

4. He dreamed that the Frenchman's sword still slew,
And triumphed the Frenchman's "eagle ;"
And the struggling Austrian fled anew,
Like the hare before the beagle.

5. The bearded Russian he scourged again,
The Prussian's camp was routed,
And again, on the hills of haughty Spain,
His mighty armies shouted.

6. Again Marengo's field was won,
And Jena's bloody battle;
Again the world was overrun,

Made pale at his cannons' rattle.

7. He died at the close of that darksome day,
A day that shall live in story;

In the rocky land they placed his clay,
"And left him alone with his glory."

LESSON LI.<

OUR OWN COUNTRY.

1. THERE is no such scenery on earth, I verily believe, as There is but one Niagara in its broad circumference,

ours.

a Pronounced Roo'she an, or Rush'e-an; but, by the poets, usually in two syllables. b Proo'she-an, or Prush'ë-an; but, by the poets, usually in two syllables. Mar-en'. go; a village in the north of Italy, famous for the victory of Napoleon over the Austrians, in 1800. d Jen'a; a town of Germany, celebrated for the victory of the French over the Prussians, in 1806.

and then its glorious rivers, from the tumbling cataracts of high northern latitudes, to the calm and beautiful Alabama ;' the majestic Mississippi; the golden waters of Missouri; the placid, soft Ohio.

2. And then, too, its lakes, the vast inland seas, where fleets can ride; its forests, alive with songsters of almost every note, and every feather; of trees of every cast and hue, and, if seen in the frosts of autumn, beyond the power of pencil to paint; mocking the skill of man, rivaling the rich sunset on the bosom of the western clouds, and making a very paradise of earth!

3. And then its boundless prairies, its savannahs, its vast havens, on which beat the waves of the ocean with their sullen roar, and its still solitudes, where man feels as if he really were alone with the Indian; the wild, unapproached, and almost unapproachable Indian, in his savage dignity, painted and decked for war, fiery red, with his armor on, "snorting for battle.”

4. And then, again, its noisy cities, where men crowd and rush as if the spot of earth on which they were was their only spot; cities now vying in business with the older cities of Europe, but yet in the gristle; in their swaddling clothes, as it were, by and by to become the Londons of the Western world! What a variety of view is this! How rich in speculation, in thought! How admirably calculated to warm the imagination, and to give feeling and imagery!

5. Talk not, then, of Europe as the only land worth a journey over. Its past we may reverence and admire. There is sublimity in it. But the future of our country, who dare set its metes and bounds? Who will trace it out? Sublime, is but a feeble word for the destiny that awaits it!

6. What nation presents such a spectacle as ours, of a confederated government; so complicated, so full of checks and balances, over such a vast extent of territory, with so many varied interests, and yet moving so harmoniously?

a Al-a-ba-ma. b Missou'ri, (Mis-soo're.) c Lon'don, the metropolis of the British Empire. It was a place of considerable commerce in A. D. 51, and is now the most commercial, and, probably, the largest city on the globe.

7. I go within the walls of the capitol at Washington, and there, under the star-spangled banners that wave amid its domes, I find the representatives of three territories, and of twenty-six nations; nations, in many senses, they may be called, that have within them all the germ and sinew to raise a greater people than many of the proud principalities of Europe; all speaking one language, all acting with one heart, and all burning with the same enthusiasm, the love and glory of our common country; even though parties do exist, and bitter domestic quarrels now and then arise.

8. I take my map, and I mark from whence they come. What a breadth of latitude, and of longitude too, in the fair est portion of North America! What a variety of climate and what a variety of production! What a stretch of seacoast, on two oceans, with harbors enough for all the commerce of the world!

9. What an immense national domain, surveyed and unsurveyed, of extinguished and unextinguished Indian titles, within the states and territories, and without! It is estimated, in the aggregate, to be more than one billion acres, and to be worth the immense sum of more than one billion dollars; seven hundred and fifty million acres of which are without the bounds of the states and territories, and are yet to make new states, and to be admitted into the Union!

10. Our annual revenue now, from the sales, is over three millions of dollars. Our national debt, too, is nearly or quite extinguished, and yet within fifty-eight years, starting with a population of about three millions, we have fought the war of Independence; again, not ingloriously, struggled with the greatest naval power in the world, fresh with laurels won on sea and land; and now we have a population of over twenty millions of souls. One cannot feel the grandeur of our republic, unless he surveys it in detail.

11. It is difficult to be very prosaic in describing such a

a This edifice, in which Congress meets, is of the Corinthian style of architecture, constructed of free-stone. It is 350 feet long, and 120 high to the top of the dome.

country as ours. Think, if a prophet, but thirty years ago had predicted only the half that has happened, lucky would he have been to escape the asylum for lunatics. Jefferson" mourned over a journey from Monticello to Philadelphia, as a fearful undertaking.

12. Mount Vernon' and Bunker Hill were as far apart in the days of Washington, as the jumping-off rock in Eastport, (Maine,) and Augusta, (Georgia,) now are. The Mississippi boatman, who was thirty and forty days in going over a distance he now goes in six, can now hardly believe that he is the man he was. The steam-boat and the steam-horse, are the miracle workers of the day. But, then, enterprise and labor have done their wonders, too.

13. The Erie canal! What an achievement for a young people! The Chesapeake and Ohio canal, too! Go over it, and see how labor has wrought with mountain rocks, and torn them from their beds, and dashed them aside, as if with the

power of Milton's demons. See the fire-horse, with long trains of cars, careering through the air, over rivers, and pathless swamps, from Charleston, South Carolina, to Hamburgh, on the Savannah.

14. Take the railroad from Boston to Providence, and see the rocks that have been cleft asunder, the mountains of dirt thrown up; the track now through caverns, and anon over a massive bridge of mason work, that almost staggers human faith to believe that it has been done.

15. And then mark what enterprise is planning, and will execute, too. Why, railroad tracks are projecting in all directions, from New Orleans to Nashville, in the south, and from Montreal to Portland, in the north. No enterprise staggers us. Nothing appals us. No hazard is to great to be run. Ingenuity is racked to the utmost. Every body is awake, and wide awake.

a Jefferson; the third President of the U. S., born 1743. b Monticello; Jefferson's 'esidence, in Virginia. Mount Vernon; the burial place of Washington, in Virginia. 4 Bunker Hill; the place where the second battle was fought in the Revolution. • The Erie canal extends from Lake Erie to the Hudson river, a distance of about 360 miles.