By Afric's pestilential shore',

By many an iceberg, lone and hoar',-
By many a palmy western isle,

Basking in spring's perpetual smile',-
By stormy Labrador'?

8. Say shall they feel the vessel reel,
When, to the battery's deadly peal,
The crashing broadside makes reply'?
Or else, as at the glorious Nile,

Hold grappling ships, that strive the while,
For death or victory'?

9. Hurrah!-cling! clang!-once more, what glows, Dark brothers of the forge, beneath The iron tempest of your blows

The furnace's fiery breath?

10. Clang! clang!-a burning torrent, clear And brilliant, of bright sparks is poured Around and up in the dusky air,

11.

As our hammers forge the SWORD.

The sword! -a name of dread; yet when
Upon the freeman's thigh 'tis bound,

While for his altar and his hearth,-
While for the land that gave him birth,
The war-drums roll, the trumpets sound;
How sacred is it then!

12. Whenever for the truth and right
It flashes in the van of fight,
Whether in some wild mountain pass
As that where fell Leonidas;'

Or on some sterile plain and stern,
A Marston or a Bannockburn;"
Or, mid fierce crags and bursting rills,
The Switzer's Alps, gray Tyrol's hills,-
Or, as when sunk the Armada's' pride,
It gleams above the stormy tide,-
Still, still, whene'er the battle word
Is LIBERTY, when men do stand
For justice and their native land,
Then Heaven bless THE SWORD!

QUESTIONS.-1. What things are mentioned as being forged? 2. What is said of the colter? 3. What, of the iron cable? 4. What, of the sword?

LESSON CXI.

BEN E FACTION, gift; favor.

E LATE', flushed with success.

IN HER ENT, natural.

PER FECTION, excellence.

VIG'ILS, watchfulness.

CON SO LA'TION, comfort.
AV'E NUE, way; entrance.
A TROCI TIE$, enormities.

MOCK' ER Y, derision; ridicule.

FAC UL TIES, powers of the mind.

UN BRĪB′ ED, not influenced by gifts. CA PAC' I TIE$, abilities

CHOICE EXTRACTS.

I.

SWIFTNESS OF TIME.

IDLER.

LET him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction. And let him who proposes his own happiness, reflect, that while he forms his purpose, the day rolls on, and "the night cometh when no man can work."

II.

THE SHIP OF STATE.

LONGFELLOW.

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State !
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity, with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
We know what Master laid thy keel,
What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what a forge, and what a heat,
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope.

III.

THE TRUE HERO.

HORACE BUSHNELL.

The true hero is the great, wise man of duty,-he whose soul is armed by truth and supported by the smile of God,he who meets life's perils with a cautious but tranquil spirit, gathers strength by facing its storms, and dies, if he is called to die, as a Christian victor at the post of duty. And, if we must have heroes, and wars wherein to make them, there is none so brilliant as a war with wrong,—no hero so fit to to be sung as he who hath gained the bloodless victory of truth and mercy.

IV.

HEART ESSENTIAL TO GENIUS.

We are not always equal to our fate,

W. G. SIMMS.

Nor true to our conditions. Doubt and fear
Beset the bravest, in their high career,
At moments when the soul, no more elate

With expectation, sinks beneath the time.

The masters have their weakness. “I would climb,"
Said Raleigh, gazing on the highest hill,—
"But that I tremble with the fear to fall.”
Apt was the answer of the high-souled queen:
"If thy heart fail thee, never climb at all!"
The heart! if that be sound, confirms the rest,
Crowns genius with his lion will and mien,
And, from the conscious virtue in the breast,
To trembling nature gives both strength and will.

V.

EDUCATION.

ADDISON.

I consider a human soul without education, like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties until the skill of the polisher fetches out the colors, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance.

VI.

THE VANITY OF WEALTH.

DR. JOHNSON.

No more thus brooding o'er yon heap,
With av'rice painful vigils keep;
Still unenjoyed the present store,
Still endless sighs are breathed for more.
Oh! quit the shadow, catch the prize,
Which not all India's treasure buys!
To purchase Heaven has gold the power'?

Can gold remove the mortal hour'?
In life, can love be bought with gold'?
Are friendships pleasures to be sold'?
No'; all that's worth a wish-a thought,
Fair Virtue gives unbribed, un bought.
Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind;
Let nobler views engage thy mind.

VII.

CONSOLATION OF THE GOSPEL.

A. ALEXANDER.

OH, PRECIOUS GOSPEL! Will any merciless hand endeavor to tear away from our hearts, this last, this sweetest consolation'? Would you darken the only avenue through which one ray of hope can enter'? Would you tear from the aged and infirm poor the only prop on which their souls can repose in peace'? Would you deprive the dying of their only source of consolation'? Would you rob the world of its richest treasure'? Would you let loose the flood-gates of every vice, and bring back upon the earth the horrors of superstition, or the atrocities of atheism'? Then endeavor to subvert the gospel'; throw around you the firebrands of infidelity'; laugh at religion, and make a mockery of futurity'; but be assured that for all these things, God will bring you into judgment`.

VIII.

THE LIGHT OF IIOPE.

O. W. B. PEABODY.

1. Oh, who that has gazed, in the stillness of even,
On the fast-fading hues of the west,

Has seen not afar, in the bosom of heaven,
Some bright little mansion of rest,