and, to the former, he will start out in the background of the past, as he appeared in the neighboring Chamber,—tall, elate, impassioned, with flashing eye, and suasive gesture and clarion voice,-an already acknowledged 'Agamemnon, -king of men; and, to others, he will again stand in this chamber, "the strong staff" of the bewildered and staggering State, and "the beautiful rod," rich with the blossoms of genius, and of patriotic love and hope; the life of youth still remaining to give animation, grace, and exhaustless vigor to the wisdom, the experience, and the gravity of age.

3. To others, he may be present, as he sat in the chamber of sickness, cheerful, majestic, gentle,-his mind clear,his heart warm,-his hope fixed on Heaven, peacefully preparing for his last, great change. To the memory of the minister of God, he appears as the penitent, humble, and peaceful Christian, who received him with the affection of a father, and joined with him in solemn sacrament and prayer, with the gentleness of a woman, and the humility of a child. "Out of the strong came forth sweetness!" "How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod !"

4. But not before this assembly only, does the venerable image of the departed statesman this day distinctly stand; for more than a thousand miles, east, west, north, and south, it is known and remembered at this place and hour, a Nation's representatives assemble to do honor to him whose fame is now a Nation's heritage,-a Nation's mighty heart throbs against this Capitol, and beats through you.

5. In many cities, banners droop, bells toll, cannons boom, funeral draperies wave. In crowded streets, and on surrounding wharves, upon steamboats, upon rail-cars, in fields, in workshops, in homes, in schools, millions of men, women, and children, have their thoughts fixed upon this scene, and say mournfully to each other, this is the hour, in which, at the Capitol, the Nation's representatives are burying HENRY CLAY.

6. Burying HENRY CLAY'! Bury the records of your country's history,-bury the hearts of living millions,-bury

the mountains, the rivers, the lakes, and the spreading lands from sea to sea, with which his name is inseparably associated, and even then you would not bury HENRY CLAY; for he lives in other lands, and speaks in other tongues, and to other times than ours.

7. A great mind, a great heart, a great orator, a great career, have been consigned to history. She will record his rare gifts of deep insight, keen discrimination, clear statement, rapid combination, plain, direct, and convincing logic. She will love to dwell on that large, generous, magnanimous, open, forgiving heart.

8. She will linger with fond delight on the recorded or traditional stories of an eloquence that was so masterful and stirring, because it was but himself struggling to come forth on living words, because though the words were brave, and strong, and beautiful, and melodious, it was felt that behind them there was a soul braver, stronger, more beautiful, and more melodious than language could express.

9. She will point to a career of statesmanship which has, to a remarkable extent, stamped itself on the public policy of the country, and reached in beneficent, practical results, the fields, the looms, the commercial marts, and the quiet homes of all the land, where his name was with the departed fathers, and is with the living children, and will be with successive generations, an honored household word.

10. I feel, as a man, the grandeur of this career, but, as an immortal, with this broken wreck of mortality before me, with this scene, as the end of all human glory, I feel that no career is truly great, but that of him who, whether he be illustrious or obscure, lives to the future in the present, and, linking himself to the spiritual world, draws from God the life, the rule, the motive, and the reward of all his labor.

QUESTIONS.-1. In what various aspects to different persons may Mr. Clay be supposed to have appeared at the time of his death? 2. What does the speaker say of burying him? 3. How will history regard his memory? 4. What is the only truly great career?

1. With voice and mien of stern control,
He stood among the great and proud,
And words of fire burst from his soul,
Like lightnings from the tempest-cloud ;
His high and deathless themes were crowned
With glory of his genius born,
And gloom and ruin darkly frowned,

Where fell his bolts of wrath and scorn.

2. (pl.) But he is gone, the free, the bold,
The champion of his country's right;
His burning eye is dim and cold,

And mute his voice of conscious might.
Oh, no! not mute; (<) the stirring call
Can startle tyrants on their thrones,
And on the hearts of nations fall

More awful than his living tones.

3. The impulse that his spirit gave

To human thought's wild, stormy sea,
Will heave and thrill through every wave
Of that great deep eternally;

And the all-circling atmosphere,

PROPERTY

With which is blent his breath of flame,
Will sound with cadence deep and clear,
In storm and calm, his voice and name.

4. His words that, like a bugle blast,
Erst rang along the Grecian shore,
And o'er the hoary Andes passed,
Will still ring on for evermore.
Great LIBERTY will catch the sounds,
And start to newer, brighter life,
And summon from Earth's utmost bounds
Her children to the glorious strife.

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5. Unnumbered pilgrims o'er the wave,
In the far ages yet to be,

Will come to kneel beside his grave,
And hail him prophet of the free.
() 'Tis holier ground, that lowly bed,

In which his moldering form is laid,
Than fields where Liberty has bled
Beside her broken, battle-blade.

6. Who, now, in danger's fearful hour,
When all around is wild and dark,
Shall guide with voice, and arm of power,
Our freedom's consecrated ark?
(pl.) With stricken hearts, O God, to Thee,
Beneath whose feet the stars are dust,
We bow, and ask that Thou wilt be,

Through every ill, our stay and trust.

QUESTIONS.-1. What is said of Mr. Clay's oratory? 2. What will be the effect of his eloquence on future generations? 3. What is said of the ground where he is buried? 4. With what petition does the piece close? 5. How, according to the notation, should this piece be read?

LESSON CXLVI.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

AU GUST', grand; majestic.
FOR TU I TOUS, accidental.
CON' COURSE, a running together.
AT TRACT IVE, drawing to.
IL LU MI NATION, light.
AN NI HI LATE, destroy.
AF FIRM', assert; declare.

EMON STRATES, shows; proves.

LU MI NA RY, body giving light. IN COM PRE HEN' SI BLE, that can not be comprehended.

IN AC CESS I BLE, unapproachable.

DIS PERS' ED, scattered.

IL LIM IT A BLE, boundless.
UN SEARCH A BLE, inscrutable.

THE SUN AN EXHIBITION OF OMNIPOTENCE.

THOMAS DICK.

1. What a glorious idea does such an object, as the Sun, present us of the grandeur of the Deity and the energies of Omniponce! There is no single object within the range

of our knowledge, that affords a more striking and august emblem of its Great Creator. In its luster, in its magnitude, in its energy, in its boundless influence, and in its beneficial effects on this earth, and on surrounding worlds, there is a more bright display of Divine perfection, than in any other material being with which we are acquainted:

2. "Great source of day, best image here below Of thy Creator,-ever pouring wide,

From world to world, the vital ocean round:

On Nature write, with every beam, His praise!"

3. Could such a magnificent orb have been produced by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, and placed in its proper position to distribute light and attractive influence to the worlds which roll around ít? Could chance have directed the distance, at which it should be placed from the respect ive planets, or the size, to which it should be expanded, in order to diffuse its energies to the remotest part of the system?

4. Could chance have impressed upon it the laws requisite for sustaining, in their courses, all the bodies dependent on it, or have endowed it with a source of illumination which has been preserved in action from age to age? To affirm such positions would be to undermine and annihilate the principles of all our reasonings. The existence of the Sun proves the existence of an Eternal and Supreme Divinity, and, at the same time, demonstrates His omnipotent power, His uncontrollable agency, the depths of His wisdom, and the riches of His beneficence.

5. If such a luminary be so glorious and incomprehensible, what must its Great Creator be? If its splendor be so dazzling to our eyes, and its magnitude so overpowering to our imagination, what must He be, who lighted up that magnificent orb, and bade a retinue of worlds revolve around it,--whɔ “dwells in light inaccessible, to which no mortal eye can approach ?”

6. If the Sun is only one of many myriads of similar globes, dispersed throughout the illimitable tracts of creation,