LESSON CLXI.

1. MAR A THON is the name of a village in Ancient Greece, about 15 miles north-east of Athens, celebrated by the victory there gained over the Persians, in the year B. C. 490.

2. AN A KIM, the children of Anak; a wandering nation of Southern Canaan. Being formidable in stature and appearance, they received the name of giants. Hence the word is here used by the poet to designate any powerful foes.

1. Speak boldly, Freeman! while to-day
The strife is rising fierce and high,
Gird on the armor while ye may,
In holy deeds to win or die:
The Age is Truth's wide battle-field,
The Day is struggling with the Night:
For Freedom hath again revealed
A 'Marathon of holy right.

2. Speak boldly, Hero! while the foe
Treads onward with his iron heel;
Strike steady with a giant blow,
And flash aloft the polished steel;
Be true, O Hero! to thy trust,
Man and thy God both look to thee!
Be true, or sink away to dust;

Be true, or hence to darkness flee.

3. Speak boldly, Prophet! Let the fire

Of Heaven come down on altars cursed,
Where Baäl priests and seers conspire

To pay their bloody homage first;
Be true, O Prophet! Let thy tongue
Speak fearless, for the words are thine;
Words that by morning stars were sung,
That angels hymned in strains divine.

4. Speak boldly, Poet! Let thy pen

Be nerved with fire that may not die;
Speak for the rights of bleeding men
Who look to Heaven with tearful eye.

Be true, O Poet! Let thy name
Be honored where the weak have trod,
And, in the summit of thy fame,

Be true to Man! Be true to God!

5. Speak boldly, Brothers! Wake, and come
The 'Anakim are pressing on!
In Freedom's strife be never dumb!
Gird flashing blades till all is won!
Be true, O Brothers! Truth is strong!
The foe shall sink beneath the sod;
While love and bliss shall thrill the

song,

That Truth to Man is Truth to God.

QUESTIONS.-1. What appeal is made to the FREEMAN? 2. What, to the Hero? 3. What, to the Prophet? 4. What, to the Poct? 5. What are all, as brethren, exhorted to do?

LESSON CLXII.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

SUP' pli Ance, supplication.
TROPHIES, memorials of victory.
SEN' TRIES, sentinels.

BRIDAL, nuptial; connubial.
PALL, covering for the dead.
STORI ED, told in history.

1. Marʼ co Boz ZA RIS, often styled the Epaminondas of modern Greece, was killed in an attack upon the Turks, August 20th, 1823. His last words were: "To die for liberty is a pleasure, and not a pain."

2. Mos' LEM, a Mussulman; a true Mohammedan.

MARCO BOZZARIS.

FITZ-GREENE HALLEOK.

1. () At midnight in his guarded tent,

The Turk was dreaming of the hour,
When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent,
Should tremble at his power;

In dreams, through camp and court, he bore
The trophies of a conqueror;

In dreams, his song of triumph heard;
Then wore his monarch's signet ring,-
Then pressed that monarch's throne, a king;
As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing,

As Eden's garden bird.

2. An hour passed on,-the Turk awoke; That bright dream was his last;

He woke to hear his sentry's shriek;

(f) "To ARMS! they come! the GREEK! the GREEK!"
He woke to die midst flame and smoke,
And shout, and groan, and saber-stroke,
And death-shots falling thick and fast
As lightnings from the mountain cloud;
And heard, with voice as trumpet loud,
1Bozzaris cheer his band:-

(°°) "Strike-till the last armed foe expires!
Strike-for your altars and your fires!
Strike-for the green graves of your sires!
GOD, and your native land!"

3. They fought, like brave men, long and well; They piled the ground with 'Moslem slain; They conquered; but Bozzaris fell,

Bleeding at every vein.

His few surviving comrades saw
His smile, when rang their proud hurrah,
And the red field was won;
(p.) Then saw in death his eyelids close
Calmly, as to a night's repose,

Like flowers at set of sun.

4. Come to the bridal chamber, Death!
Come to the mother, when she feels
For the first time her first-born's breath;
Come when the blesséd seals

That close the pestilence, are broke,
And crowded cities wail its stroke;
Come in Consumption's ghastly form,
The earthquake shock, the ocean storm;
Come, when the heart beats high and warm,

With banquet-song, and dance, and wine,-
And thou art terrible: the tear,

The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier,
And all we know, or dream, or fear,
Of agony, are thine.

5. But to the Hero, when his sword
Has won the battle for the free,
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word,
And in its hollow tones are heard
The thanks of millions yet to be.
Bozzaris, with the storied brave
Greece nurtured in her glory's time,
Rest thee there is no prouder grave,
Even in her own proud clime.

We tell thy doom without a sigh;
For thou art Freedom's now, and Fame's-
One of the few, the immortal names,

That were not born to die!

QUESTIONS.-1. Of what is the Turk represented as dreaming? 2. What did he awake to hear? 3. Can you describe the character and result of the combat as related in the 3d stanza? 4. When is Death terrible? 5. What is asserted of the Hero?

With what modulation of voice should the 1st stanza be read? With what, the 2d? With what, the 3d?

LESSON CLXIII.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

IN EV I TA BLE, unavoidable.
Lo Co MOTION, act of moving
from place to place.
PAMPERS, feeds luxuriously.
ER' MINE, fur of the ermine.
COUCH' ANT, lying down.
LE VANT, rising up.

validity of a will.

CHAN' CEL, part of the church
containing the altar.

AV A RI CIOUS, miserly.
PRO FUSE', lavish; extravagant.
GENERATE, bring into existence.
PES' TI LENT, noxious.

A POTHE CA RY, one who pre-O' DI OUS, hateful.

pares and sells drugs and medicines.

PRO BATE, the proving of the

PRO DIGIOUS, enormous.
REV' E NUE, income.

IN VEST', empower.

1. JOHN BULL, and JoN'A THAN, cant names for England and the

United States.

TAXES! TAXES!

SYDNEY SMITH.

1. 'John Bull can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory:-TAXES! taxes upɔn every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot; taxes upon every thing which is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste; taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion; taxes on every thing on earth, and the waters under the earth; on every thing that comes from abroad, or is grown at home; taxes on the raw material; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride;—at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.

2. The school-boy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road;—and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintzbed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Beside the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers,-to be taxed

no more.

3. In addition to all this, the habit of dealing with large sums will make the Government avaricious and profuse; and the system itself will infallibly generate the base vermin of spies and informers, and a still more pestilent race of political tools and retainers of the meanest and most odious descrip