...well-measured lines our poet-philosopher thus compasses the story of man's life here on the earth : So soon the child a youth, the youth a man, Eager to run the race his fathers ran. And soon again shall music swell the breeze; Soon, issuing forth, shall glitter through the trees Vestures...

...— " A few short years, and then these sounds shall hail The day again, and gladness fill the vale ; So soon the child a youth, the youth a man, Eager to run the race his fathers ran." 4. Answer one only of the following questions :— (a) A wild duck and a domestic one meet on a lagoon....

...Kindeszähr', Die Schwelle weicht, auf Nimmerwiederkehr, Und ein zilr Gruft der Väter geht auch Er! Then the huge ox shall yield the broad sirloin; The ale now brewed in floods of amber sbine: And basking in the chimneys ample blaze, Mid* many a tale told of bis boyish days, The nurse...

...then these sounds shall hail The day again, and gladness fill the vale; So soon the child a youth, tbe youth a man, Eager to run the race his fathers ran....ample blaze, Mid many a tale told of his boyish days. The nurse shall cry, of all her ills beguiled, ' 'Twas on these knees he sat so oft and smiled.' '...

...sounds shall hail The day again, and gladness fill the vale ; So soon the child and youth, the youth and man, Eager to run the race his fathers ran : Then,...ample blaze, 'Mid many a tale told of his boyish days, The nurse shall cry, of all her ills beguiled, " 'Twas on these knees he sat so oft and smiled !" In...