4. "But death is on thee; I shall hear the gush
Of music, and the voices of the young;
And life will pass me in the mantling blush,
And the dark tresses to the soft winds flung;-
But thou no more, with thy sweet voice, shalt come
To meet me, Absalom!

5. "And oh! when I am stricken, and my heart, Like a bruised reed, is waiting to be broken, How will its love for thee, as I depart,

Yearn for thine ear to drink its last deep token! It were so sweet, amid death's gathering gloom, To see thee, Absalom!

6. "And now, farewell! 'Tis hard to give thee up,
With death so like a gentle slumber on thee
And thy dark sin!-oh! I could drink the cup,
If from this woe its bitterness had won thee.
May God have called thee, like a wanderer, home,
My lost boy, Absalom!"

7. He covered up his face, and bowed himself
A moment on his child; then, giving him
A look of melting tenderness, he clasped
His hands convulsively, as if in prayer;
And, as if strength were given him of God,
He rose up calmly, and composed the pall
Firmly and decently, and left him there,
As if his rest had been a breathing sleep.

LESSON CLXIX.

MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

LEARNING.

1. How empty learning, and how vain is art,
But as it mends the life and guides the heart!

YOUNG.

FAME.

2. The evil that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

MERIT.

SHAKSPEARE.

3. Be thou the first true merit to befriend;
His praise is lost, who waits till all commend.

FORGIVENESS.

4. 'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, Than for offense to ask it.

POPE.

THOMSON.

5. How little do they see what is, who frame Their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

CONSCIENCE.

6. The sweetest cordial we receive, at last,
Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.

ENVY.

7. Base envy withers at another's joy,

And hates that excellence it can not reach.

EXPERIENCE.

8. Experience joined with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

COWARDS.

SOUTHEY.

GOFFE.

THOMSON.

9. Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

IDLENESS.

GREEN.

SHAKSPEARE.

10. I would not waste my spring of Youth
In idle dalliance: I would plant rich seeds,
To blossom in my manhood, and bear fruit,
When I am old.

HILLHOUSE.

GRATITUDE.

11. He that hath nature in him, must be grateful; "Tis the Creator's primary great law

12.

That links the chain of beings to each other.

INGRATITUDE.

If there be a crime

Of deeper dye than all the guilty train
Of human vices, 'tis ingratitude.

WORDS.

13. Words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling like a dew upon a thought, produces

MADDEN.

BROOKE.

That which makes thousands, perhaps, millions, think.

INFLUENCE.

14. A pebble in the streamlet scant,

Has turned the course of many a river;

A dew-drop on the tender plant,

Has warped the giant oak forever.

FIDELITY.

BYRON.

15. His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles;
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate;
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart:
His heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth.

GOODENSS.

16. The words which thou hast uttered,
Are of thy soul a part,

And the good seed thou hast scattered,
Is springing from the heart.

FLATTERY.

SHAKSPEARE.

WHITTIER.

17. For praise too dearly loved, or warmly sought.
Enfeebles all internal strength of thought;
And the weak soul within itself unblest,
Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.

GOLDSMITE.

HAPPINESS.

18. Beware what earth calls happiness; beware
All joys, but joys that never can expire;
Who builds on less than an immortal base,
Fond as he seems, condemns his joys to death.

OPPORTUNITY.

19. There is a tide in the affairs of men,

YOUNG.

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows, and in miseries.

OCCASION.

SHAKSPEARE.

20. Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take
That subtle Power, the never-halting Time,
Lest a mere moment's putting-off should make
Mischance almost as heavy as a crime.

WORDSWORTH.

21.

GUILT.

What a state is guilt,

When every thing alarms it! Like a sentinel,
Who sleeps upon his watch, it wakes in dread,
E'en at a breath of wind.

HAVARD.

THE PASSIONS.

22. O, how the passions, insolent and strong,
Bear our weak minds their rapid course along;
Make us the madness of their will obey,
Then die, and leave us to our griefs a prey.

DUTY.

23. Rugged strength and radiant beauty,-
These were one in nature's plan;
Humble toil and heavenward duty,—
These will form the perfect man.

СВАВВЕ.

MRS. HALE.

EQUALITY.

24. Consider man, weigh well thy frame,
The king, the beggar are the same;

Dust formed us all. Each breathes his day,
Then sinks into his native clay.

COMPLAINT.

25. To tell thy mis'ries will no comfort breed;
Men help thee most who think thou hast no need;
But, if the world once thy misfortunes know,
Thou soon shalt lose a friend and find a foe.

FALSEHOOD.

26. Let falsehood be a stranger to thy lips; Shame on the policy that first began

GAY.

RANDOLPB.

To tamper with the heart to hide its thoughts!
And doubly shame on that inglorious tongue,
That sold its honesty and told a lie.

COURTESY.

27. Would you both please and be instructed too,
Watch well the rage of shining, to subdue;
Hear every man upon his favorite theme,
And ever be more knowing than you seem;
The lowest genius will afford some light,
Or give a hint that had escaped your sight.

HAVARD.

RE SIGN ED, gave up.

PAS' SIVE, unresisting.

SEP/ UL CHERS, tombs.

DIS PENS' ED, assigned.

1. CTES I PHON, (Tes' i phon,) the Athenian who brought forward the proposition in relation to the crown of gold, which the Athenians decreed to Demosthenes for his public services.

2. MAR A THON, (see note, p. 351).

3. PLA TE'A, a town in Boeotia, in Ancient Greece, celebrated for the battle in which the Persians, under Mardonius, were defeated by the Greeks, B. C. 479.