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2. When, with sad footstep, memory roves
'Mid smitten joys and buried loves;
When sleep my tearful pillow flies,
And dewy morning drinks my sighs;
Still to thy promise, Lord, I flee,
That, "As my day, my strength shall be."
3. One trial more must yet be past,

One pang-the keenest, and the last;
And when, with brow convulsed and pale,
My feeble, quivering heart-strings fail,
Redeemer, grant my soul to see

That, "As her day, her strength shall be."

QUESTIONS.-1. In what part of the Scriptures is the heading of this piece found? Ans. Deut. 33d chapter, 25th verse. 2. What is intended to be taught in this piece?

LESSON CXXXIX.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

REV O LUTION IZ ING, changing) PER PET U ATE, continue.

completely.

IM MO BILI TY, fixedness.
CON SERVA TISM, desire and
effort to preserve what is esta-
blished.

MO MEN TUM, impetus.
WIELDER, manager; handler.
VIN' DI CATE, defend; justify.
PRE SCI ENCE, foreknowledge.
AR' ID, dry; parched.

MA LA RI OUs, infectious.

AC CEL ER A TED, quickened.
RATIO, rate; degree.
FA TU I TY, weakness of mind.
PRE DICT ED, foretold.
PHAN TOMS, specters; fancies.
PER EN NI AL, unceasing.
EM' U LA TING, vying with.
PER SISTENT, persevering.
PRI OR, previous.

COMPETENCE, sufficiency.

UN FURL/ED, unrolled; spread out.

1. NA THANIEL HAW' THORNE, who, according to an excellent judge, "is among the first of the first order of writers," was born at Salem, Mass., about the year 1807.

AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS.

(Extract from an Address before the Indiana State Agricultural Society.)

HORACE GREELEY.

1. I do not seek to disguise the magnitude and the difficulty of the work I contemplate-that of revolutionizing our

agriculture, and making it the most elevated and ennobling, because the most intellectual pursuit of man. I realize the mountains of Prejudice that are to be leveled, the Dead Seas of Ignorance that must be filled up, the constitutional immobility of Conservatism, that must be overcome, before the end can be attained.

2. But I see, also, how "the stars in their courses" fight in behalf of Progress and Enlightenment,-how immense has been the march of Intelligence, as well as Invention and Physical Improvement in our age,-how the Steamboat, the Railroad, the Steam Press, the Ocean Steamship, the Electric Telegraph, are speeding us onward with a momentum the world has never before known,-and I hear a voice from all these, and many a kindred impulse, and influence, bidding Man, the Cultivator, advance boldly and confidently to take his proper post as lord of the animal kingdom, and wielder of the elements for the satisfaction of his wants, and the development of his immortal powers.

$ 3. I hear them calling him to vindicate the discernment or the prescience of those glorious old Greeks, who gave our Earth in her young luxuriance the name of Kosmos or BEAUTY―a name belied by our scarred and stumpy grainfields, our seared and barren pastures, our bleak and arid deserts, our foul, malarious marshes; but which Science sball yet justify, and joyous labor perpetuate.

4. In spite of all distractions and impediments, "the world does move," and even the most sluggish and stubborn are carried along with it. Our Agriculture, as a whole, is more skillful and efficient than it was thirty or forty years ago; and it is now improving in accelerated ratio. Even I, the descendant of a line of poor cultivators, stretching back, very likely, to him who, through his own blindness and fatuity, lost the situation of head gardener in Eden,—even I feel the all-pervading impulse toward improvement and reform.

5. 'Hawthorne, in his "Three-Fold Destiny," tells the story of a young man who wandered all the world over in

quest of three wonderful incidents, which, it had been predicted, should occur to him; and returned disappointed and spirit-broken, to find them all under the shadow of his paternal roof. I perceive in this tale, as in every work of true genius, some reflection of a universal fact,―an appeal to the general experience and the heart of Humanity. How many have chased deluding phantoms through the fervid noontide of life, only to find, as evening shadows drew around them, that Ambition had no goal, Achievement no triumph, to equal the calm, perennial joys of a humble, rural home!

6. I commend the moral of Hawthorne's story to our young men, who are, from year to year, setting forth so bravely to wrench fortune from the golden sands of California, or win her, among the young cities, that, emulating the growth of Jonah's gourd, are beginning to dot the American shores of the great Pacific. Far be it from me to insinuate that their venture is a wild one, and their hopes necessarily doomed to untimely blight.

7. I have faith in American energy; still more in sturdy, persistent, intelligent Industry; and I feel sure that a clime so genial, a country so diversified in its natural features, a soil so deep and virgin, as those of California, must proffer many inducements to the hardy, resolute pioneer, even though that soil be here and there sprinkled with gold. Such an enterprise as the peopling and settling of a country so new and so remote from prior civilization, will, of course, demand its martyrs: in its prosecution, thousands will die, and tens of thousands fail; but the enterprise itself will neither die nor fail; and many of those who fitly embark in it, will achieve, at last, success and competence.

8. What I would say is addressed rather to the tens of thousands, whom filial or parental ties retain among us, while they impatiently champ the bit, and say: "Why am not I, too, at liberty to cross the Rocky Mountains, and gather my share of the golden harvest?" To these I would earnestly say: "Believe not, repining friends! that California

and fortune are inseparable, nor forget that there were broad avenues to success and competence, before Fremont unfurled his Bear standard in the valley of the Sacramento."

QUESTIONS.-1. What difficulties does the speaker find in the way of revolutionizing our agriculture? 2. From what circumstances does he derive encouragement that such revolution will take place? 3. What is said of the name Kosmos, applied by the Greeks to our earth? 4. How does agriculture at present compare with its condition 30 or 40 years ago? 5. What story in Hawthorne's Three-Fold Destiny is referred to? 6. To whom does he recommend the moral of this story? 7. What advice does he give those who are impatient to seek their fortunes by gold-digging?

LESSON CXL.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

E QUIPPED, fitted out.

IN' DI CATE, denote; point out.
MAN' TLE, redden; crimson.

IN HER IT ANCE, possession.

PUL SA TION, act of throbbing.
RE LUCTANT, unwilling.

1. PIERRE DU TER' rail, Chev a lier' Bay' arD, callen the knight without fear and without reproach, was born in 1476, in the astle of Bayard, near Grenoble. He was one of the most spotless characters of the middle ages. He died April 30th, 1524.

2. HENRY FRAN' CIS D'AG' UES SEAU, (Dag' a so,) distinguished in the annals of French eloquence and jurisprudence, was born at Limoges in 1668. After a life of signal usefulness, he died in the year 1751.

PARTING ADDRESS TO LA FAYETTE.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.

1. The ship is now prepared for your reception, and equipped for sea. From the moment of her departure, the prayers of millions will ascend to Heaven, that her passage may be prosperous, and your return to the bosom of your family as propitious to your happiness, as your visit to this scene of your youthful glory, has been to that of the American people.

2. Go, then, our beloved friend, return to the land of brilliant genius, of generous sentiment, of heroic valor; to that beautiful France, the nursing mother of the Twelfth Louis and the Fourth Henry; to the native soil of 'Bayard and 'D'Aguesseau.

3. In that illustrious catalogue of names, which she claims as those of her children, and with honest pride holds to the admiration of other nations, the name of LA FAYETTE has already, for centuries, been enrolled. And it shall henceforth burnish into brighter fame; for if, in after days, a Frenchman shall be called to indicate the character of his nation by that of one individual, during the age, in which we live, the blood of lofty patriotism shall mantle in his cheek, the fire of conscious virtue shall sparkle in his eye, and he shall pronounce the name of LA FAYETTE.

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4. Yet we, too, and our children, in life, and after death, shall claim you for their own. You are ours by that more than patriotic self-devotion, with which you flew to the aid of our fathers, at the crisis of their fate; ours by that long series of years, in which you have cherished us in your regard; ours by that unshaken sentiment of gratitude for your services, which is a precious portion of our inheritance; ours by that tie of love, stronger than death, which has linked your name, for the endless ages of time, with the name of WASHINGTON.

5. At the painful moment of parting from you, we take comfort in the thought, that, wherever you may be, to the last pulsation of your heart, our country will ever be present to your affections; and a cheering consolation assures us, that we are not called to sorrow, most of all, that we shall see your face no more. We shall indulge the pleasing anticipation of beholding our friend again.

6. In the mean time, speaking in the name of the whole people of the United States, and at a loss only for language to give utterance to that feeling of attachment, with which the heart of the nation beats, as the heart of one man,-I bid you a reluctant and affectionate farewell

QUESTIONS.-1. When and for what will the prayers of millions ascend? 2. What, in the 3d paragraph, is said of the name of La Fayette? 3. In what sense is La Fayette ours? 4. In what does the speaker take comfort at the moment of parting from La Fayette? 5. How does the speech close?

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