-walk the earth, that she may hear her name GRIMKE. QUESTIONS.-How shall the orator be regarded who attempts to dissolve the Union? If he believes a separation desirable, what shall he do with his opinion? Why is freedom of speech and the press allowed to both bad and good? What feeling toward the Union must be cherished in every American bosom ? How should the American regard party spirit, and demagogues? To what sentiments should he always appeal, and to what others never? How shall he regard the Union in respect to the world?-To time, and to eternity? LESSON CI. ARTICULATE the d and t clearly: thou-sands, not thou-sans: dust, not duss: friends, not frien's: con-flict, not con-flic; ground, not groun; found, not foun: must, not mus. Ser'-ri-ed, a. crowded together. 7. Ram'-part, n. that which defends 17. Im-preg'-na-ble, a. that can not be moved or shaken. bristles. 18. Hor'-rent, a. standing out like [to authority. 29. In-surg'-ent, a. rising in opposition 9. En-chant'-ed, a. possessed by witches 30. Fray, n. quarrel, battle. [ing. or imaginary spirits. 50. An-ni'-hi-late, v. to reduce to noth MAKE WAY FOR LIBERTY. At the battle of Lempach, A. D. 1315, between the Swiss and Austrians, the latter having obtained possession of a narrow pass in the mountains, formed a sorried phalanx with presented spears. Until this was broken, the Swiss could not hope to make a successful attack. At last, Arnold Winkelried, leaving the Swiss ranks, rushed upon the Austrian spears, and receiving in his body as many points as possible, made a breach in the line, which resulted in the complete rout f the Austrian army. 1. "MAKE way for liberty!" he cried; In arms the Austrian phalanx stood, 5. A wall where every conscious stone Seemed to its kindred thousands grown; Till time to dust their frames should wear: All horrent with projected spears, 25. Peasants, whose new-found strength had broke 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? Would they not feel their children tread With clanking chains above their head? It must not be: this day, this hour, 50. Annihilates the oppressor's power; All Switzerland is in the field, Few were the numbers she could boast; 55. And felt as though himself were he 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. But 't was no sooner thought than done; 70. The field was in a moment won: "Make way for Liberty!" he cried; Then ran, with arms extended wide, As if his dearest friend to clasp, Ten spears he swept within his grasp: 75. "Make way for Liberty!" he cried, Their keen points met from side to side; He bowed among them like a tree, And thus made way for Liberty. Swift to the breach his comrades fly; 80. "Make way for Liberty!" they cry, And through the Austrian phalanx dart, As rushed the spears through Arnold's heart, Rout, ruin, panic, scattered all: 85. An earthquake could not overthrow Thus Switzerland again was free, MONTGOMERY. QUESTIONS.-When, and between whom did the battle of Lempach take place? How were the Austrians drawn up? What was the necesBity for the self-sacrifice of Winkelried? How did it result? Is war justifiable? LESSON CII. REMARK.-Give the poetic pauses their appropriate prominence. In most of the following lines, the cesura is very decidedly marked. PRONOUNCE Correctly.-Fierce, not fèrce: bird, not bud: crim son, pro. crim-z'n: (See McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book, page 49 :) thun-der-er's, not thun-d'ruz; wing-lets, not wing-lits. 1. Beak, n. the bill of a bird. 10. Wri'-thing, p. twisting.. 15. Wing'-lets, n. little wings. Fledg'-ed, p. furnished with feathers. 38. Cleav'-ing, a spitting, dividing. THE AMERICAN EAGLE. 1. THERE's a fierce gray bird, with a bending beak, 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 aie fledged in his hottest rays. Proud bird of the cliff! where the barren yew springs, Where the sunshine stays, and the wind harp sings, She sits, unapproachable, pluming her wings. She screams! She's away! over hill-top 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, When the battle is there, all the wrath of the waves: That dips her pinions in the sun's first gush; 35. Drinks bis meridian blaze, his farewell flush; Sits amid stirring stars, and bends her beak, Like the slipped +falcon, when her piercing shriek Tells that she stoops upon her cleaving wing, To drink at some new victim's clear, red spring. 40. That monarch bird! she slumbers in the night, Upon the lofty air peak's utmost hight; Or sleeps upon the wing, amid the ray Rides with the thunderer in his blazing march, Broods with her arrows in the hurricane; Bears her green laurel o'er the starry plain, 50. And sails around the skies, and o'er the rolling deeps, With still unwearied wing, and eye that never sleeps. NEAL. QUESTIONS. -What is the emblem of our country? Describe the habits of the eagle. What traits in the character of this bird are worthy of admiration? What is meant by the "thunderer," in the 21st line? What is meant by "her god," in the 22d line? What is the nominative to "soars," in the 46th line? What to "broods," in the 48th line? To "sails" in the 50th line? What does the nominative denote ? See "PINNEO'S ANALYTICAL GRAMMAR," the work to which all the gram matical questions in this book have reference. |