5 Why did he mention the inscription "To the Unknown God"? 6. What did the Greeks mean by the Unknown God?

7. What tact is shown on Paul's part in the fact that he declared to them the Unknown God?

8 Why did he mention that the God he declared unto them dwelt not in temples made with hands?

9 Explain "Neither is worshiped with men's hands."

10. Why did not the God of Paul need any thing?

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What are the attributes of this God according to Paul? 12. Explain “In him we live, and move, and have our being."

13. Why did Paul refer to what the Greek poets said?

14. Explain "For we are also his offspring."

15 By what logic did Paul expose the fallacy of idolatrous worship? 16 Explain "the times of this ignorance God winked at."

17. What reference did he make to the resurrection of Jesus? 18 Summing up this entire speech, just what religious doctrine did Paul teach to these Greeks?

19. Why was he not put to death for such teaching?

REFERENCES

Speech of Paul before Festus and Agrippa.

PLATO. Apology.

ANSELN: Cur Deus Homo.

First Corinthians, 13.

John, 1

SHAKESPEARE: Mark Antony's Address.

PATRICK HENRY: A Call to Arms.

WEBSTER. Reply to Hayne.

Cowards die many times before their death;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,

It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,

Will come when it will come.

-Shakespeare.

ANNABEL LEE

EDGAR ALLAN POE

NOTHING in the life of Edgar Allan Poe so en

deared him to the public as his loving devotion to his wife, the beautiful Virginia. Though oppressed by a biting poverty that would have embittered many toward everything in life, he was her constant attendant as she sank, a victim to the ravages of consumption. His fidelity to this fadeless love called forth the following beautiful lyric in memory of their “more than love.”

The sublimest melodies of all literature seem to have been poured from breaking hearts. If the highly sensitive poet is capable of expressing most beautifully the sorrows of life, he is also capable of feeling them most keenly.

ANNABEL LEE

It was many and many a year ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea,

But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee-

With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-

Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,

In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-

Of many far wiser than we

And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea-
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

SUGGESTIVE EXERCISES

1. What was the kingdom by the sea?

2. What is the great thought in the first stanza?

3. What is a love that is more than love?

4. Poe was twenty-seven when he married. Why does he say, "I was a child"?

5. What thought is repeated?

6. What characteristic of the poet is revealed in this repeated thought?

7. What expression in the poem shows the intensity of the love? 8. What kind of love does he indicate is deathless?

9. How does he account for the death of Annabel Lee?

10. Why does he blame the wind for killing her?

11. Who was her highborn kinsman?

12. Why has the author chosen the kingdom and the tomb by the "sounding sea" as an appropriate setting?

13. Why was their love stronger than that of those older and far wiser?

14. Would the white lily or the red rose best symbolize the nature of this love?

15. The new blown snow or the flaming sunset?

REFERENCES

WILLIAM DOUGLAS: Annie Laurie.

BURNS: To Mary in Heaven.

COWPER: On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture.

BYRON: Bright be the Place of Thy Soul. She Walks in Beauty. Fare Thee Well.

BROWNING: Evelyn Hope. Last Ride Together. My Star. Prospice. WHITTIER: Benedicite.

OWEN MEREDITH: Indian Love-Song.

LOUISA MCCARTNEY CRAWFORD: Kathleen Mavourneen.
PINCKNEY: A Health.

MOORE: Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms.

TAYLOR: Bedouin Song.

WORDSWORTH: She Was a Phantom of Delight.

ROGERS: The Rosary.

THOMAS MOORE: The Lake of the Dismal Swamp.

What is it to be a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and, possessing all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner. Thackeray.

THE BAREFOOT BOY

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

LTHOUGH his poetry is characterized as being rugged as his New England hills, few have written more feelingly of persons and things in the humbler walks of life than John G. Whittier.

Himself sprung from this rank in life, he had sounded