'Twill be no crime to have been Cato's friend.
Portius, draw near! My son! thou oft hast seen
Thy sire engaged in a corrupted state,

Wrestling with vice and faction; now thou seest me
Spent, o'erpowered, despairing of success;
Let me advise thee to retreat betimes

To thy paternal seat, the Sabine field,

Where the great Censor toiled with his own hands,
And all our frugal ancestors were blessed
In humble virtues, and a rural life;

There live retired; pray for the peace of Rome,
Content thyself to be obscurely good.

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
The post of honor is a private station.

Por. I hope my father does not recommend
A life to Portius that he scorns himself.

any of you

Cato. Farewell, my friends! If there be
Who dare not trust the victor's clemency,
Know there are ships prepared by my command
Their sails already opening to the winds-
That shall convey you to the wished-for port.
Is there aught else, my friends, I can do for you
The conqueror draws near.
Once more farewell!

If e'er we meet hereafter, we shall meet
In happier climes, and on a safer shore,
Where Cæsar never shall approach us more.

?

[Pointing to his dead son.

There the brave youth, with love of virtue fired,
Who greatly in his country's cause expired,
Shall know he conquered. The firm patriot there,
Who made the welfare of mankind his care
Though still by faction, vice, and fortune crossed,
Shall find the generous labor was not lost.

ADDISON.

HUMAN LIFE. HOPE.

STRAND; Sound the combinations str and nd. AWAY; ǎ-way'; do not sound a like u, nor blend it with the final sound of the preceding word. SOFTLY; soft lé; sound t. SPRAY; spră; sound spr. LEFT; sound ft. WORLD; wêrld; sound rld. HUMAN; hú'măn. EVENTS; e-vents'; sound nts. MOMENT; mō'měnt; do not sound ě like й; sound nt. STRIFE; sound str. RULER; гoolêr; u, preceded by r, like oo. DowER; dou'êr. sound r.

I'VE sat and seen one bright wave chase

Its fellow on the strand,

Then fall away, nor leave a trace

Upon the printless sand.

Though scarce the pebbles felt the shock,

The waves have worn the solid rock.

I've sat and heard the autumn wind
Amid the branches play,
So softly mild, so blandly kind,
It scarcely stirred the spray;
Yet soon it bore spring's verdant birth
To wither on its native earth.

I've sat and seen the evening sun
Sink from the golden sky,
His long, bright race of glory run,

And close his golden eye.

So slow he passed, scarce changed the light;

And yet he left the world in night.

And like yon sea is human life;

Events like billows roll;

Moment on moment, strife on strife,
That change us to the soul;

And joys, like autumn leaves, fall fast;
Hope sets and being's light is past.

I've stood on earth's most daring height,
And seen day's ruler rise
In his magnificence of light,

To triumph through the skies,
And all the darkness of the world
Far from his shining presence hurled.

All, too, that fades upon the earth,
Too weak to linger here,
Re-blossoms with a second birth,
To deck the coming year.

Shall hope, then, man's eternal dower,
Be frailer than a failing flower?

Ah, no! Like autumn leaves that die,
That bloom again in spring,

Fresh joys shall rise from those gone by,

And purer incense bring;

And when, like suns, Hope sets in night,

Shall she not beam from worlds more bright?

JAMES.

STRAND; a shore, a beach. PRINTLESS; that retains no impression The affix less means without. BLANDLY; mildly, gently. BIRTH ; poetical for productions. GOLDEN; shining, bright, splendid.

INDOLENCE.

STORMS; stormz; sound, rmz. DREADFUL; Sound, d; do not give it the sound of t. POIGNANT; poi'nant. NEXT TO; někst; sound kst, and complete the sound before t in to is uttered. MISCHIEVOUS; mis'tshe-vŭs.

MEN become indolent through the reverses of fortune. Surely despondency is a grievous thing, and a heavy load to bear. To see disaster and wreck in the present, and no eh 166, 237 t 38. 42.

light in the future, but only storms, lurid by the contrast of past prosperity, and growing darker as they advance; to wear a constant expectation of woe as a girdle; to see want at the door, imperiously knocking, while there is no strength to repel, or courage to bear, its tyranny, indeed, this, this is dreadful enough. But there is a thing more dreadful. It is more dreadful if the man is wrecked with his fortune.

Can any thing be more poignant in anticipation, than one's own self, unnerved, cowed down and slackened into utter pliancy, and helplessly drifting and driven down the troubled sea of life? Of all things on earth, next to his God, a broken man should cling to a courageous industry. If it brings nothing back, and saves nothing else, it will save him.

To be pressed down by adversity has nothing in it of disgrace; but it is disgraceful to lie down under it, like a supple dog. Indeed, to stand composedly in the storm, amidst its rage and wildest devastations; to let it beat over you, and roar around you, and pass by you, and leave you undismayed, this is to be a MAN.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon us his image and superscription. In this matter, man may learn of insects. The ant will repair his dwelling as often as the mischievous foot crushes it; the spider will exhaust life itself before he will live without a web; the bee can be decoyed from its labor neither by plenty nor scarcity. If the summer be abundant, it toils none the less; if it be parsimonious of flowers, the tiny laborer sweeps a wider circle, and by industry repairs the frugality of the season. Man should be ashamed to be rebuked in vain by the spider, the ant, and the bee.

REVERSES; changes, vicissitudes. DESPONDENCY; despair, hopelessness, dejection of mind. DISASTER; misfortune, misery, calamity. LURID; dismal, gloomy. IMPERIOUSLY; in a tyrannical and an authoritative manner. POIGNANT; severe, painful.

THE WHISKERS.

FIRST; ir like er in

LENGTH; Sound the g. REWARD; sound the r. her-sound st. MUST; sound the st must demand, not mus-de. DESERT; er as in her. PLEASURE; u long, and sound r.

ACCENTS; sound nts.

A PETIT MAITRE wooed a fair,
Of virtue, wealth, and graces rare,
But vainly had preferred his claim;
The maiden owned no answering flame.
At length, by doubt and anguish torn,
Suspense too painful to be borne,
Low at her feet he humbly kneeled,
And thus his ardent flame revealed:

"Pity my grief, angelic fair;
Behold my anguish and despair.
For you this heart must ever burn;
O, bless me with a kind return;
My love no language can express;
Reward it, then, with happiness.
Nothing on earth but you I prize;
All else is trifling in my eyes;
And cheerfully would I resign
The wealth of worlds to call you
But if another gain your hand,
Far distant from my native land,
Far hence, from you and hope, I'll fly,
And in some foreign region die."

mine.

The virgin heard, and thus replied:
"If my consent to be your bride
Will make you happy, then be blest;
But grant me first one small request.
A SACRIFICE I must demand,
And, in return, will give my hand."
"A SACRIFICE! O, speak its name;
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