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Falling.

Oh, save me, Hubert, save me! My eyes are out,
Even with the fierce looks of these bloody men.

DIATONE.

Hail, holy light!

High on a throne of royal state.

Rising.

THIRD.

Falling.

Must I give way and room to your rash choler?
Shall I be frightened when a madman stares?

What drugs, what charms, what conjuration, and what mighty magic.

Rising.

FIFTH.

Look upon my son! What mean you? Look upon my boy as though I guessed it!

Falling.

"To arms! to arms!" cried Mortimer,

And couched his quivering lance.

Rising.

OCTAVE.

You come to teach the people?

Falling.

You pretend to teach a British general!

"We!" what page in the last court grammar made you a

plural?

All this? ay, more.

Fret till your proud heart break:

Go show your slaves how choleric you are;

And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge?
Must I observe you? Must I stand and crouch
Under your testy humor?

MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES.

He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

The combat deepens! On! ye brave!
Who rush to glory, or the grave!
Wave, Munich, all thy banners wave!

And charge with all thy chivalry!
Ah! few shall part where many meet!
The snow shall be their winding-sheet,
And every turf beneath their feet

Shall be a soldier's sepulchre!

Pause a moment. I heard a footstep. Listen now. I heard it again; but it is going from us. It sounds fainter,— still fainter. It is gone.

I climbed the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn;

Lakes and mountains beneath me gleamed misty and wide; All was still, save by fits, when the eagle was yelling, And, starting around me, the echoes replied;

On the right, Striden-edge round the Red-tarn was bending,
And Catchedicam its left verge was defending,

One huge, nameless rock in the front was ascending,
When I marked the sad spot where the wanderer had died.

The quality of mercy is not strained:

It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven,
Upon the place beneath: it becomes

The throned monarch better than his crown:

It is an attribute to God himself;

And earthly power doth then show likest God's,
When mercy seasons justice.

Alas! I am afraid they have awaked;

And 'tis not done: the attempt, and not the deed,
Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready:
He could not miss them. Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done it.

Go ring the bells, and fire the guns,
And fling the starry banner out;
Shout Freedom,' till your lisping ones
Give back the cradle shout.

Where the pillared props of heaven
Glitter with eternal snows,

Where no darkling clouds are driven,
Where no fountain flows;

Far above the rolling thunder,
When the surging storm
Rent its sulphury folds asunder,
We beheld thy form.

The children, too - dear things!

- they'll be sopping wet;

for they shan't stay at home; they shan't lose their learning: it's all their father will leave them, I'm sure. But they shall go to school. Don't tell me they shouldn't! — you're so aggravating, Caudle, you'd spoil the temper of an angel, - they shall go to school, mark that; and if they get their deaths of cold, it's not my fault; I didn't lend the umbrella.

Oh, soft falls the dew, in the twilight descending,
And tall grows the shadowy hill on the plain;
And night o'er the far distant forest is bending,

Like the storm-spirit, dark, o'er the tremulous main.
But midnight enshrouds my lone heart in its dwelling,
A tumult of woe in my bosom is swelling,

And a tear, unbefitting the warrior, is telling

That Hope has abandoned the brave Cherokee !

Oh, Swedes! Swedes!

Heavens are ye men, and will ye suffer this?
There was a time, my friends, a glorious time!
When, had a single man of your forefathers
Upon the frontiers met a host in arms,

His courage scarce had turned; himself had stood,
Alone had stood, the bulwark of his country.
Come, come on, then. Here I take my stand!
Here, on the brink, the very verge of liberty;
Although contention rise upon the clouds,

Mix heaven with earth, and roll the ruin onward,
Here will I fix, and breast me to the shock,

Till I, or Denmark fall.

He should have per

Oh! but he paused upon the brink. ished on the brink, ere he had crossed it! Why did he pause? Why does a man's heart palpitate when he is on the point of committing an unlawful deed? Because of compassion, you say. What compassion? The compassion of an assassin, that feels a momentary shudder, as his weapon begins to cut!

You can not, my lords, you can not conquer America!

An hour passed on ; the Turk awoke;

That bright dream was his last;

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He woke to hear his sentry's shriek,

"To arms! They come! The Greek! the Greek!" He woke to die, midst flame and smoke, And shout, and groan, and saber-stroke, And death-shots falling thick and fast As lightnings from the mountain cloud; And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band; "Strike - till the last armed foe expires! for your altars and fires!

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Tick! tick! How wearily the time crawls on!

Why should he leave me thus? He once was kind!
And I believed 'twould last! How mad! How blind!

Is never a sigh heard to come forth from these damp tombs ? a shout from some sleeping warrior? Might we not hear from some part of the Abbey a faint voice as if it came from spirit land? No! These dead do never waken or walk; the battle-ax has fallen from the strong hand of the Saxon and the Norman, and they rest in stillness together. Genius, which lived in sorrow and died in want, here sleeps as proudly as royalty. All is silence; but here silence is greater than speech.

Away! away to the mountain's brow,
Where the trees are gently waving!
Away! away to the vale below,

Where the stream is gently laving!

What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and Nature to the massacres of the Indian scalping-knife! to the cannibal savage, torturing, murdering, devouring, and drinking the blood of his mangled victims! Such notions shock every precept of morality, every feeling of humanity, every sentiment of honor.

Rouse, ye Romans! rouse, ye slaves!
Once again I swear, the Eternal City
Shall be free!

Oh, weep for the earth and the children of men!
Awake the sad music of mountain and glen!
Pour out the deep voice of lament on the blast;
For a year hath gone down to the grave of the past!

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