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NURS' ER Y, place in a house set SUB MISSION, resignation. apart for children.

DE PLORED, lamented.

LINES ON RECEIVING HIS MOTHER'S PICTURE.

COWPER.

1. My Mother! (pl.) when I learned that thou wast déad,
Sáy, wast thou conscious of the tears I shéd?
Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing són,
Wretch even then, life's journey just begún?
Perhaps, thou gav'st me, though unfelt, a kiss;
Perhaps, a tear, if souls can weep in bliss,-
Ah, that maternal sinile! it answers-YES.

2. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day;
I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away;
And, turning from my nursery window, drew
A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu!
But was it súch? It was. Where thou art gone,
Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.
May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore,
The parting word shall pass my lip no more!

3. Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern,
Oft gave me promise of thy quick return.
What ardently I wished, I long believed,
And, disappointed still, was still deceived.
By expectation every day beguiled,
Dupe of to-morrow, even from a child:
Thus many a sad to-morrow came and went,
Till, all my stock of infant sorrow spent,
I learned, at last, submission to my lot;

But, though I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot.

QUESTIONS.-1. To whom does Cowper represent himself as speaking? 2. What were his feelings when his mother died? 3. By what promise was he, for a time, deceived?

With what modulation should this piece be read? What rule for the rising inflection on mother?

LESSON XCVI.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

BOND' AGE, slavery.
DO MAIN', possession.
LAND' SCAPE, view or prospect

of a district of country.
EN CHANT ER, one that charms.
PLUME LESs, without feathers.
RAR EST, scarcest.

BRILLIANT, bright; splendid
RE NOWN' ED, famous.
FORE BOD' ING, dreading evil.
BANKRUPT, insolvent.
SOL ACE, consolation.
WIZARD, enchanter; sorcerer.
DIS TRACT ED, perplexed.

1. OLYMPUS is one of the most celebrated mountains of ancient Greece. It is represented by the poets as being the habitation of the gods, where Jupiter sat shrouded in clouds and mist from the eyes of mortals. It rises to the hight of about 6500 feet.

THE WORLD FOR SALE.

RALPH HOYT.

1. THE WORLD FOR SALE!-Hang out the sign:
Call every traveler here to me;
Who'll buy this brave estate of mine,
And set me from earth's bondage free:

'Tis going!-yes, I mean to fling

The bauble from my soul away;

I'll sell it, whatsoe'er it bring;

The World at Auction here to-day!

2. It is a glorious thing to see,—
Ah, it has cheated me so sore!
It is not what it seems to be:

For sale! It shall be mine no more.
Come, turn it o'er and view it well,

I would not have you purchase dear;

'Tis going! GOING!-I must sell!

Who bids?-Who'll buy the splendid Tear?

3. Here's WEALTH in glittering heaps of gold,-
Who bids?-But let me tell you fair,

A baser lot was never sold;

Who'll buy the heavy heaps of care?
And here, spread out in broad domain,
A goodly landscape all may trace;
Hall, cottage, tree, field, hill, and plain;
Who'll buy himself a burial-place!

4. Here's LOVE, the dreamy potent spell
That beauty flings around the heart;
I know its power, alas! too well;
'Tis going,-Love and I must part!
Must part?-What can I more with Love?
All over the enchanter's reign;
Who'll buy the plumeless, dying dove,-
An hour of bliss,-an age of pain!

5. And FRIENDSHIP,-rarest gem of earth,—
(Whoe'er hath found the jewel his?)
Frail, fickle, false, and little worth,—
Who bids for Friendship-as it is!
'Tis going! GOING !-Hear the call:
Once, twice, and thrice!—'tis very low!
'Twas once my hope, my stay, my all,-
But now the broken staff must go!

6. FAME! hold the brilliant meteor high;
How dazzling every gilded name!
Ye millions, now's the time to buy!

How much for Fame? (f.) How much for Fame?
1fear how it thunders!-Would you stand
On high 'Olympus, far renown'd,-

Now purchase, and a world command!—
And be with a world's curses crown'd!

7. Sweet star of HOPE! with ray to shine
In every sad foreboding breast,
Save this desponding one of mine,-

Who bids for man's last friend and best!
Ah, were not mine a bankrupt life,
This treasure should my soul sustain ;
But Hope and I are now at strife,
Nor ever may unite again.

8. And SONG! For sale my tuneless lute;
Sweet solace, mine no more to hold;
The chords that charm'd my soul are mute;
I can not wake the notes of old!

Or e'en were mine a wizard shell,
Could chain a world in rapture high;

Yet now a sad farewell!-farewell!

(>) Must on its last faint echoes dic.

9. Ambition, fashion, show, and pride,-
I part from all forever now;
Grief, in an overwhelming tide,

Has taught my haughty heart to bow.
Poor heart! distracted, ah, so long,-
And still its aching throb to bear;
How broken, that was once so strong!
How heavy, once so free from care!

10. No more for me life's fitful dream;
Bright vision, vanishing away!
My bark requires a deeper stream;
My sinking soul a surer stay.
By Death, stern sheriff! all bereft,
I weep, yet humbly kiss the rod,
The best of all I still have left,-

My FAITH, my BIBLE, and my God.

QUESTIONS.-1. What is the moral of this piece? 2. What account is given of Wealth? 3. Of Love? 4. Of Friendship? 5. Of Fame? 6. Of Hope? 7. Of Song? 8. Can you repeat from memory the last stanza? 9. Can you repeat correctly the words, "frail, fickle, false," several times in quick succession?

LESSON XCVII.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

MA NI A, insanity; madness. EN THU SI ASM, mental excite

SCHEME, project; plan.

FOREIGN ER, not a native.
PROF' LI GATE, abandoned to vice.
CHAR' TER ED, privileged by
charter.

PRE MI UM, bounty.

PRE CARI Ous, uncertain.
IN VESTMENTS, moneys used in
purchases.

FU' ROR, fury; rage.

ment.
TREMENDOUS, dreadful; terrible.
AU DI ENCE, a hearing.
IN' FLUX, a flowing in.
BE WIL' der ED, perplexed.
TAP ES TRIES, figured cloths.
IM PORT ED, brought from for
eign countries.

PIN' NA CLE, summit.
SPASMS, violent convulsions.

THE MISSISSIPPI SCHEME.

W. H. VAN DOREN.

1. The most remarkable mania for gold, and the most extensively ruinous in its results, occurred in France, and

continued from 1716 to 1723. It is known in history, as the Mississippi Scheme, and was conceived and carried on by John Law, of Scotland. This foreigner inherited an ample fortune, but by prodigality spent it, and betook himself to gambling.

2. Life in London led him into a duel, in which he shot his antagonist; being taken, he escaped prison, and fled to the continent. He published a work on trade in Scotland, which fell dead from the press. He practiced his dangerous habits in Amsterdam, and successively seems to have been hunted from land to land, as a pest to society. For fourteen years, he roamed through Flanders, Holland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and France.

3. Louis XIV., the illustrious, but profligate monarch, left a national debt of three thousand millions of livres, the price of his dear-bought glory. A bank established by Law & Co., and chartered by the French government, raised the drooping commerce of the country, and soon its notes were fifteen per cent. premium.

4. This singular success induced Law to devise a scheme for the exclusive trading with the French colony on the mouth of the Mississippi, which land was supposed to abound in gold.

5. The Regent, on this precarious foundation, issued notes to the amount of one thousand millions of livres.

6. Then the company embraced, by permission of government, the Indies, China, and South Seas, and then assumed the name of the India Company.

7. Law promised a return of 120 per cent. profit to all investments. The public enthusiasm was elevated so high, that, at least, 300,000 applications were made for only 50,000 new shares then created. Dukes, marquises, counts, with their duchesses, marchionesses, and countesses, waited, in the streets, for hours every day, to know the result.

8. The Regent created 300,000 additional shares, and such was the furor for speedy wealth, that three times that

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