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2. When Freedom from her mountain-height,
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,

And set the stars of glory there.

3. Charge, Chester, charge! on, Stanley, on! Were the last words of Marmion.

4. And when the tumult dwindled to a calm,

I left them practicing the hundredth psalm.

5. The player's power lies not in tricks, or attitude, or start, Nature's true knowledge is his only art.

6. We are many in one while there glitters a star
In the blue of the heavens above,

And tyrants shall quail 'mid their dungeons afar,
Where they gaze on that motto of love.

7 If the man that turnips cries, cry not when his father dies,
It is a proof that he would rather have a turnip than his father.

Element No. 5.

1. Hear me for my cause, and be silent, that ye may hear. 2. He sees with equal eye, as God of all,

A hero perish or a sparrow fall.

3. I scorn your proffered treaty.

4. Torn from home and all its pleasures, Afric's coast I left forlorn,

To increase a stranger's treasures

O'er the raging billows borne.

5. The steamship "Warrior" was lost, with all on board, near Cape Horn.

6. Ha! laughest thou, Lochiel, my vision to scorn?

Proud bird of the mountain thy plume shall be torn!

7. The Universal Cause

Acts not by partial, but by general laws.

Element No. 6.

1. Up all who love me, blow on blow,

And lay the rebel outlaws low.

2. King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.

3. The way was long, the wind was cold,

The minstrel was infirm and old.

4. It was a bold, noble, and a glorious deed.

5. Know then this truth (enough for man to know),
"Virtue alone is happiness below."

6. Hope humbly, then, with trembling pinions soar,
Wait the great teacher Death and God adore.
7. All are but parts of one stupendous whole,

Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
8. If the demon of drink has entered your soul,
And his power is getting beyond your control,
And leading you on to a terrible goal,

Put down the brakes.

9. 'Mid pleasure or pain, in weal or in woe, 'Tis a law of our being, we reap as we sow. 10. The noblest lesson taught by life

To every great, heroic soul,

Who seeks to conquer in the strife,
Is self-control.

Element No. 7.

1. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. 2. Go teach eternal wisdom how to rule,

Then drop into thyself, and be a fool.

3. The wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err therein. 4. Unvail thy bosom, faithful tomb,

Take this new treasure to thy trust,
And give these sacred relics room
To slumber in the silent dust.

5. Oh, who could bear life's stormy doom,
Did not thy wing of love

Come brightly wafting through the tomb,
Our peace-branch from above.

6. Voyager upon life's sea,

To yourself be true,

And where'er your lot may be,

Paddle your own canoe.

7. Leave to Heaven, in humble trust, All you wish to do;

But if you succeed you must

Paddle your own canoe.

8. Dare to be right, dare to be true,

You have a work that no other can do.

INTERMEDIATE VOWELS.

Element No. 8.

1. And if ye dare to ask for justice, be answered by the lash. 2. When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,

To lock such rascal counters from his friends,
Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts;
Dash him to pieces!

Element No. 9.

1. Seize on the thought ere yet its power be past, And bind in words the fleet emotion fast.

2. By a single glance of thought

Time's sealed years are 'fore us brought.

SHORT VOCALS.

Element No. 10.

1. We may try to evade it,

May do what we will,

But our acts, like our shadows,

Will follow us still.

2. Six added to fifty make fifty-six.

3. Where American Liberty raised its first voice,... there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood, and full of its original spirit. 4. For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't;

And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.

5. The secret wouldst thou know

To fire the blood and touch the heart at will,

Let thine own eyes with tears o'erflow,

And thy voice quiver with convulsive thrill.

6. A more unmitigated villain never lived than the pirate Gibbs. 7. Fat paunches make lean pates; and dainty bits

Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.

8. Of all the amusements of the mind

From logic, down to fishing,

There is not one that you can find
That is as cheap as wishing.

9. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand

and my heart to this vote.

10. Stick to your aim, the mongrel's hold will slip;

But crow-bars only force the bull-dog's grip.

11. Nature to all things fixed the limit fit,

And wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit. 12. It is not all in bringing up,

Let folks say what they will;

You silver wash a pewter cup
It will be pewter still.

Element No. 11.

1. To this motto with firmness unceasing I'll bend, May he who wants gratitude e'er want a friend.

2. One rule I leave you when I'm dead:

Be sure you're right, then go ahead.

3. Were I an American, as I am an Englishman, I would never lay down my arms! Never! never! never!

4. The reason why, I can not tell,

But this I know, and know right well,

I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.

5. If virtue starves while vice is fed,

What then? Is the reward of virtue bread?

6. This letter was written by William Penn.

7. I said an older soldier, not a better: Did I say a better? 8. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostrils wide; and bend up

every spirit to its full height.

9. Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?

10. The pen is mightier than the sword.

11. Hell's haughty monarch, that arch-foe of men,
Might in his bosom find a fouler den,

There to confine proud fiends that durst rebel,
And leave them pining for their native hell.

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3. Nothing is our own till we earn it.

4. Learn to unlearn what you have learned amiss.

5. A merciful man is merciful to his beast.

6. The earth is composed of land and water.

7. The passage will be found in the first chapter, in the thirty-third

8. His delivery was characterized by sincerity and fervid earnestness. 9. Men! yes, millions; yet many perish ere the holy fight is won: but the light that freemen cherish shall survive yon setting sun.

Element No. 13.

1. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

2. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,

The proper study of mankind is Man.

3. Mr. Baxter met with an accident last Saturday, by which his back was badly hurt.

4. Back into the chamber turning,

All my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping
Somewhat louder than before.
Surely, said I, surely that is
Something at my window lattice.
Let me see, then, what thereat is,
And this mystery explore.

5. The general order since the world began

Is kept in nature and is kept in man.

6. A dandy is a thing that would
Be a young lady, if he could;
But as he can't, does all he can
To show the world he's not a man.
7. It rests with me, here brand to brand,
Worn as thou art, to bid thee stand."

Element No. 14.

1. Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I!

2. If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men the greater share of honor.

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