ADORATION.

DESCRIPTION OF FIGURE.

The right foot moderately advanced; the attitude gracefully easy; the right arm bent at the elbow, the thumb being on a level with the shoulder; the hand open, the palm outward; the left arm hanging down perpendicular with and a short distance from the side, the hand nearly open, the palm down; the head slightly thrown back; the eyes upturned.

Examples.

1. The sword of Washington! The staff of Franklin! Oh, sir, what associations are linked in adamant with these names! Washington, whose sword was never drawn but in the cause of his country, and never sheathed when wielded in his country's

cause!

What other two men, whose lives belong to the eighteenth century of Christendom, have left a deeper impression of themselves upon the age in which they lived, and upon all after time?

2. Oh, with what pride I used

To walk these hills, and look up to my God,

And bless him that the land was free. 'Twas free

From end to end, from cliff to lake, 'twas free!
Free as our torrents are that leap our rocks
And plow our valleys, without asking leave!
Or as our peaks that wear their caps of snow
In very presence of the regal sun!

3. And had he not high honor ?—
The hill-side for his pall;

To lie in state while angels wait,
With stars for tapers tall;

And the dark rock-pines, like tossing plumes

Over his bier to wave;

And God's own hand, in that lonely land,

To lay him in the grave.

ADORATION.

ADMIRATION.

DESCRIPTION OF FIGURE.

The right foot very slightly advanced; the left knee bent a little so as to bring the figure into an easy, agreeable posture; the form quite erect; the shoulders well back; the right arm stretched out on a level with the breast; the hand open, and the index finger pointed at the object spoken of (or to); the left arm close to the hip, but from the hip slightly extended from the body; the hand expanded and palm down. Such an attitude and expression would well befit these lines:

1. Ah! there it stands, the same old house!
And there that ancient tree,

Where I first trod in boyish pride,
And laughed in happy glee.
But it is changed; the fence is gone
Which girded it around;

And here and there the fragments lie

Scattered upon the ground.

2. Look abroad over this country; mark her extent, her wealth, her fertility, her boundless resources, the great energies which every day she develops, and which she seems already bending for that fatal race-tempting, yet always fatal to republicsthe race for physical greatness and aggrandizement. Behold, too, that continuous and mighty tide of population, native and foreign, which is forever rushing through this great valley toward the setting sun; sweeping away the wilderness before it like the grass before the mower; waking up industry and civilization in its progress; studding the solitary rivers of the West with marts and cities; dotting its boundless prairies with human habitations; penetrating every green nook and vale; climbing every fertile ridge; and still gathering and pouring onward, to form new States in those vast and yet unpeopled solitudes, where the Oregon rolls his majestic flood and "hears no sound save his own dashing."

ADMIRATION,