Fleecy locks and black complexion Cannot forfeit Nature's claim; Dwells in white and black the same. 3 Why did all-creating nature Make the plant for which we toil? 4 (°)Is there, as ye sometimes tell us, 5 (oo) Hark! he answers,—wild tornadoes, Afric's sons should undergo, Where his WHIRLWINDS answer--NO. 6 By our blood in Afric wasted, Ere our necks received the chain; 7 Deem our nation brutes no longer, Cowper. 6. Marco Bozzaris, The Epaminondas of Modern Greece. [He fell in an attack upon the Turkish Camp, at Laspi, the site of the ancient Platæa, August 20, 1823, and expired in the moment of victory. His last words were" To die for liberty is a pleasure, and not a pain."] 1 At midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour, When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, In dreams, through camp and court, he bore In dreams his song of triumph heard. ; 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, (°) "To arms! they come ! the Greek! the Greek !" And shout, and groan, and sabre stroke, A (0°) "Strike-till the last armed foe expires, 3 They fought-like brave men, long and well, His few surviving comrades saw Like flowers at set of sun. 4 *Come to the bridal chamber, Death! Which close the pestilence are broke, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, 5 But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, The thanks of millions yet to be. Plaintive. Greece nurtured in her glory's time, For thou art Freedom's now, and Fame's- That were not born to die. Halleck. 7. (。)Now when fair morn orient in Heaven appear'd, Up rose the victor Angels, and to arms The matin trumpet sung: in arms they stood 5 Soon banded; others from the dawning hills Look'd round, and scouts each coast light armed scour, Each quarter, to descry the distant foe, Where lodg'd, or whither fled, or if for fight, In motion or in halt: him soon they met 10 Under spread ensigns moving nigh, in slow But firm battalion; back with speediest sail Zophiel, of Cherubim the swiftest wing, Came fly'ing, and in mid air aloud thus cry'd. (0°) ARM, Warriors, arm for fight--the foe at hand, 15 Whom fled we thought, will save us long pursuit This day; fear not his flight: so thick a cloud He comes, and settled in his face I see Sad resolution and secure; let each His adamantine coat gird well,--and each (6) So warn'd he them, aware themselves, and soon 25 In order, quit of all impediment; Instant, without disturb, they took alarm, And onward move, embattled: when behold, Approaching, gross and huge, in hollow cube, 30 Training his devilish enginry, impal'd On every side with shadowing squadrons deep, A while; but suddenly at head appear'd Satan, and thus was heard commanding loud. 35 (0°) VANGUARD, to right and left the front unfold; That all may see who hate us, how we seek Peace and composure, and with open breast Stand ready to receive them, if they like Our overture, and turn not back perverse.' 26] Page 125. Expression. Milton. The Exercises arranged in this class belong to the general head of the pathetic and delicate. As this has been partly anticipated under another head of the Exercises, and as the manner of execution in the case depends wholly on emotion, there can be little assistance rendered by a notation. Before reading the pieces in this class, the remarks of the Analysis p. 125-128 should be reviewed; and the mind should be prepared to feel the spirit of each piece, by entering fully into the circumstances of the case. 1. GENESIS XLIV. Judah's speech to Joseph. 18 *Then Judah came near unto him, and said, O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant for thou art even as Pharaoh.-19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?-20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one: and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.-21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.-22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot *The reader is again desired to bear in mind that in extracts from the Bible, as well as other books, Italic words denote emphasis. |