RIENZI'S' ADDRESS TO THE ROMANS. 1. FRIENDS! 2. 3. MISS MITFORD. I come not here to talk. You know too well But base, ignoble slaves! slaves to a horde Strong in some hundred spearmen; only great Each hour, dark fraud, Or open rapine, or protected murder, Cry out against them. But this very day, And suffer such dishonor'? The stain away in blood'? (f) Be we men, MEN, and wash not Such shames are common. I have known deeper wrongs. I, that speak to ye, Full of gentleness, of calmest hope, Of sweet and quiet joy; there was the look Of heaven upon his face, which limners give That gracious boy! Younger by fifteen years, A summer bloom on his fair cheek,- ye brave sons To see them die ! For vengeance! (f.) Rouse ye, Romans!—ROUSE YE, SLAVES! 5. Yet this is Rome, That sat on her seven hills, and, from her throne Was greater than a king! And once again,— QUESTIONS.-1. In what condition did the writer say the Roman people were? 2. What wrongs are complained of? 3. What special cases are mentioned? 4. What are the people exhorted to do? 5. What is the meaning of the suffix dom, in the word thralldom? See ANALYSIS, page 142, Ex. 189. 6. What is the meaning of the suffix less, in the word harmless? See page 140, Ex. 187. 7. How, according to the notation mark, should the first part of the third verse be read? 8. What rule for the rising inflections, third verse? See page 28, Rule I. LESSON CX. MULTI PLY, increase; continue. RE SPLENDENT, splendid; beautiful. Po' TENT, powerful. ROAD' STEAD, place where ships RE LI ANT, trusting; depending. 1 LE ON I DAS, the celebrated Spartan leader who, with three hundred men, perished in the effort to resist the Persian hosts, at the mountain pass of Thermopyla (B. C., 480.) 2 MARS' TON, that is, Marston Moor, a place in Yorkshire, England, memorable for the defeat of Charles I., (in 1644,) by the forces of Cromwell and others. 3 BAN' NOCK BURN, a village in Stirlingshire, Scotland, famous for the battle between the patriots, under Robert Bruce, and the English invading army, under Edward II., fought, June 25, 1314. 4 AR MA' DA, a great naval armament sent by Philip II. of Spain, in 1588, for the conquest of England. It failed utterly, however, of its object, having been scattered and disabled by violent storms. SONG OF THE FORGE. 1. CLANG! clang! the massive anvils ring,- The mighty blows still multiply: Clang! clang! Say, brothers of the dusky brow, 2. Clang! clang!-we forge the colter now— 3. Clang! clang!-our colter's course shall be On many a sweet and sunny lea, By many a streamlet's silver tide, 4. When regal Autumn's bounteous hand, 5. Clang! clang!—again, my mates, what glows 6. Anxious no more, the merchant sees Calmly he rests, though, far away 7. Say, on what sands these links shall sleep, Fathoms beneath the solemn deep'? By Afric's pestilential shore', By many an iceberg, lone and hoar',— Basking in spring's perpetual smile',— 8. Say, shall they feel the vessel reel, Hold grappling ships, that strive the while, 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 While for his altar and his hearth,- 12. Whenever for the truth and right |