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A wood like that enchanted grove,
10. In which, with fiends, Rinaldo strove,
Where every silent tree possessed
A spirit prisoned in his breast,

Which the first stroke of coming strife
Would startle into hideous life:

15. So dense, so still, the Austrians stood,
A living wall, a human wood!
Impregnable their front appears,
All horrent with projected spears,
Whose polished points before them shine,
20. From flank to flank, one brilliant line,
Bright as the breakers' splendors run
Along the billows to the sun.

Opposed to these, a hovering band,
Contending for their native land:

25. Peasants, whose new found strength had broke
From manly necks the ignoble yoke,
And forged their fetters into swords,
On equal terms to fight their lords;
And what insurgent rage had gained,
30. In many a mortal fray maintained :

Marshaled once more at freedom's call,
They came to conquer or to fall,
Where he who conquered, he who fell,
Was deemed a dead or living Tell!

35. And now the work of life and death
Hung on the passing of a breath;
The fire of conflict burned within ;
The battle trembled to begin :

Yet, while the Austrians held their ground,
40. Point for attack was no where found;
Where'er the impatient Switzers gazed,
The unbroken line of lances blazed;
That line 't were suicide to meet,
And perish at their tyrants' feet;

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,
She will not fly, she cannot yield;

Few were the numbers she could boast;
But every freeman was a host,
55. And felt as though himself were he
On whose sole arm hung victory.
It did depend on one indeed;
Behold him! Arnold Winkelried!
There sounds not to the trump of fame
60. The echo of a nobler name.

Unmarked he stood amid the throng,
In rumination deep and long,

Till you might see with sudden grace,
The very thought come o'er his face;
65. And by the motion of his form,
Anticipate the bursting storm;

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;
While instantaneous as his fall,

Rout, ruin, panic, scattered all :

85. An earthquake could not overthrow

A city with a surer blow.

Thus Switzerland again was free;

Thus Death made way for Liberty!

MONTGOMERY.

QUESTIONS.— When, and between whom did the battle of Lempach take place? How were the Austrians drawn up? What was the necessity for the self-sacrifice of Winkelried? How did it result? Is war justifiable ?.

ARTICULATION. Articulate the d and t clearly, in words like the following: thou-sands, not thou-sans: dust, not duss: friends, not frien's: points, not poince: con-flict, not con-flic: ground, not groun: found, not foun: must, not mus: field, not fiel: dear-est, not dear-es.

SPELL AND DEFINE.

- 1. Liberty: 7. assaults: 14. startle, hideous; 18. projected: 23. hovering: 27. forged: 62. rumination.

LESSON CII.

RULE. Give the poetic pauses their appropriate prominence. In most of the following lines, the cesura is very decidedly marked.

Words to be Spelled and Defined.

1. Beak. n. the bill of a bird.

10. Wri'-thing, p. twisting.

25. Wing'-lets, n. little wings.

Fledg'-ed, p. furnished with feathers. 38. Cleav'-ing, a. splitting, dividing.

THE AMERICAN EAGLE.

1. THERE's a fierce gray bird, with a bending beak,
With an angry eye, and a startling shriek,

That nurses her brood where the cliff flowers blow,
On the precipice top, in perpetual snow;

5. That sits where the air is shrill and bleak,
On the splintered point of a shivered peak,
Bald headed and stripped, like a vulture torn
In wind and strife; her feathers worn,

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,
While she was tearing it and feeding.
Above the dark torrent, above the bright stream,
The voice may be heard

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 are 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 hilltop 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 his 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
Of steady, cloudless, everlasting day:

Rides with the thunderer in his blazing march,
45. And bears his lightnings o'er yon boundless arch ;
Soars wheeling through the storm, and screams away,
Where the young pinions of the morning play;
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.

QUESTIONS.

NEAL

What is the emblem of our country? Describe the
habits of the eagle. What traits in the character of this bird are worthy of ad-
miration? What is meant by the "thunderer," in the 21st line?
meant by "her god," in the 22d line!

What is

What is the nominative to "soars" in the 46th line? What to "broods"
in the 48th line? To "sails" in the 50th line?

PRONUNCIATION. - Fièrce, not fêrce: 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.

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SPELL AND DEFINE. · 4. Perpetual: 15. poised: 16. prey: 28
unapproachable: 33. banner: 35. meridian: 37. falcon: 46. wheeling.

LESSON CIII.

RULE. Let the pupil stand at a distance from the teacher, and then try to read so loud and distinctly that the teacher may hear each syllable.

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[Extract from an address delivered at the celebration of the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843]

1. FEW topics are more inviting, or more fit for philosophical discussion, than the action and influence of the New World upon the Old; or the contributions of America to Europe.

2. Her obligations to Europe for science and art, laws, literature, and manners, America acknowledges as she ought, with respect and gratitude. And the people of the United States, descendants of the English stock, grateful for the treasures of knowledge derived from their English ancestors, acknowledge, also, with thanks and filial regard, that among those ancestors, under the culture of Hampden and Sidney, and other assiduous friends, that seed of popular liberty first germinated, which, on our soil, has shot up to its full hight, until its branches over

shadow all the land.

If she has

3. But America has not failed to make returns. not canceled the obligation, or equaled it by others of like weight, she has, at least, made respectable advances, and some approaches toward equality. And she admits, that, standing in the midst of civilized nations, and in a civilized age, a nation among nations, there is a high part which she is expected to act, for the general advance of human interests and human welfare.

4. American mines have filled the mints of Europe with the precious metals. The productions of the American soil and climate, have poured out their abundance of luxuries for the tables of the rich, and of necessaries for the sustenance of the poor. Birds and animals of beauty and value, have been added to the European stocks; and transplantations from the transcendent and unequaled riches of our forests, have mingled

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