2. Forsake thy drowsy couch, and sprightly rise
While yet fresh morning streaks the ruddy skies:
While yet the birds their early matins sing,
And all around us blooming as the spring;
Ere sultry 'Phoebus with his scorching ray,
Has drank the dew drops from their mansion gay,
Scorched every flower, embrowned each drooping green,
Palled the pure air, and chased the pleasing scene.
Still dost thou sleep? O, rise, imprudent fair!
Few hours has life, nor of those few can spare!

3. Think of the task those hours have yet in view,
Reason to arm, and passion to subdue;
While life's fair calm, and flattering moments last,
To fence your mind against the stormy blast:
Early to hoard blest Wisdom's peace-fraught store,
Ere yet your bark forsakes the friendly shore,
And the winds whistle, and the billows roar.

4. Imperfect beings! weakly armed to bear
Pleasure's soft wiles, or sorrow's open war;
Alternate shocks from different sides to feel,
Now to subdue the heart, and now to stecl:
Not weakly arm'd, if ever on our guard,
Nor to the worst unequal, if prepared:
Not unsurmountable the task, if loved,
Nor short the time, if every hour improved.

5. (f) O, rouse thee, then! nor shun the glorious strife; Extend, improve, enjoy the hours of life:

Assert thy reason, animate thy heart,

And act, through life's short scene, the useful part: (p.) Then sleep in peace, by gentlest memory crown'd, Till Time's vast year has fill'd its perfect round.

QUESTIONS.-1. What motives to early rising are presented in this piece? 2. What is meant by Phoebus?

What rule for the falling inflection on awake, 1st stanza? What, for the rising on Laura, friend, and fair? What, for the rising on sleep? With what different modulations should the last stanza be read? See Notation, p. 40.

1. Ah! the rust of riches!--not that portion of them which is kept bright in good and holy uses-" and the consuming fire" of the passions which wealth engenders! No rich man, I lay it down as an axiom of all experience, no rich man is safe, who is not a benevolent man. No rich man is safe, but in the imitation of that benevolent God, who is the possessor and dispenser of all the riches of the universe.

2. What else mean the miseries of a selfish, luxurious, and fashionable life everywhere? What mean the sighs that come up from the purlieus, and couches, and most secret haunts of all splendid and self-indulgent opulence? Do not. tell me that other men are sufferers too. Say not that the poor, and destitute, and forlorn, are miserable also. Ahb just Heaven! thou hast, in thy mysterious wisdom, appointed. to them a lot hard, full hard to bear.

3. () Poor, houseless wretches! who "eat the bitter bread of penury, and drink the baleful cup of misery;" the winter's winds blow keenly through your "looped and windowed raggedness;" your children wander about unshod, unclothed, and untended; I wonder not that ye sigh. But why should those who are surrounded with every thing that heart can wish, or imagination conceive-the very crumbs that fall from whose table of prosperity, might feed hun

dreds why should they sigh amidst their profusion and splendor? They have broken the bond that should connect power with usefulness, and opulence with mercy. That is the reason.

4. They have taken up their treasures, and wandered away into a forbidden world of their own, far from the sympathies of suffering humanity; and the heavy night-dews are descending upon their splendid revels; and the allgladdening light of heavenly beneficence is exchanged for the sickly glare of selfish enjoyment; and happiness, the blessed angel that hovers over generous deeds and heroic virtues, has filed away from that world of false gayety and fashionable exclusion.

QUESTIONS.-1. When, only, is the rich man safe? 2. Why do the rich often sigh?

How, according to the notation, should the first part of d paragraph be read? What antithetic words in sparagraph?

LESSON LXXXII.

WASHINGAN PRIESTS,

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

AL LAYS', drawbacks.
PRESENT LY, at present.
PAR A LYT IC, palsied.
SA' BLES, furs of the sable.
SCORPI ONS, venomous reptiles.
SPEC' TERS, ghosts; apparitions.
IL LUSIONS, deceptions.
FANTASTIC, fanciful; whimsical.
FLAY ING, taking off the skin.

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CAL'DRON, large kettle, or boiler.
DE LICIOUS, delightful.
IN TER MED DLE, interfere.
PI' RATES, robbers on the seas.
MERCHANT MAN, vessel used for

transportation of goods.

SPIR' IT U AL, pertaining to the
spirit.

PE CULIAR, appropriate.

1. SCYTH' I ANS, the general name given by the ancients to the nomadic or wandering tribes of the north of Europe and Asia, beyond the Black Sea.

REAL AND APPARENT HAPPINESS.

JEREMY TAYLOR.

1. If we could look into the thoughts of the prosperous and prevailing tyrant, we should find, even in the days of his joys, such allays and abatements of his pleasure, as may

serve to represent him presently miserable, beside his final infelicities. For I have seen a young and healthful person warm and ruddy under a poor and thin garment, when, at The same time, an old rich person has been cold and paralytic under a load of sables, and the skins of foxes.

2. It is the body that makes the clothes warm, not the clothes the body; and the spirit of a man makes felicity and content, not any spoils of a rich fortune, wrapped about a sickly and an uneasy soul..

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3. Apollodórus was a traitor and a tyrant, and the world wondered to see so bad a man have so good a fortune, knew not that he nourished scorpions in his breast, and that his liver and his heart were eaten up with specters and images of death; his thoughts were full of interruptions, his dreams of illusions; his fancy was abused with real troubles and fantastic images, imagining that he saw the 'Scythians flaying him alive, his daughters, like pillars of fire, dancing round about a caldron, in which himself was boiling, and that his heart accused itself to be the cause of all these evils.

4. Does he not drink more sweetly, that takes his beverage in an carthen vessel, than he that looks and searches into his golden chalices, for fear of poison, and looks pale at every sudden noise, and sleeps in armor, and trusts nobody, and does not trust God for his safety?

5. Can a man bind a thought with cháins, or carry imagination in the palm of his hand? Can the beauty of the peacock's train, or the ostrich plume, be delicious to the palate and the throat? Does the hand intermeddle with the joys of the heart? or darkness, which hides the naked, make him wárm? Does the body live as does the spírit?

6. Indeed, the sun shines upon the good and bad; and the vines give wine to the drunkard, as well as to the sober man; pirates have fair winds and a calm sea, at the same time when the just and peaceful merchantman hath them But, although the things of this world are common to good

and bad, yet spiritual joys, the food of the soul, and the blessing of Christ, are the peculiar rights of saints.

QUESTIONS.-1. How must we examine a man, in order to know whether his happiness is real or apparent merely? 2. What instances are cited to show, that the happiness of a person can not be inferred from outward appearances only?

EDWARD YOUNG.

1. Can gold calm passion, or make reason shíne?
Can we dig peace or wisdom from the mine?
Wisdom to gold prefer; for 'tis much less
To make our fortune than our happiness,-
That happiness which great ones often see,
With rage and wonder, in a low degree,
Themselves unblessed. The poor are only poor;
But what are they who droop amid their store?
Nothing is meaner than a wretch of state.
The happy only are the truly great.

2. Peasants enjoy like appetites with kings,
And those best satisfied with cheapest things.
Could both our Indies buy but one new sense,
Our envy would be due to large expense;
Since not, those pomps which to the great belong,
Are but poor arts to mark them from the throng.
See how they beg an alms of Flattery:
They languish! oh, support them with a lie!

3. A decent competence we fully taste;

It strikes our sense, and gives a constant feast;