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toed banners; there were lodges and grand lodges, white aprons and blue scarfs; there were miles of ens from the towns and the country round about; e were two hundred gray-haired men, remnants of days of the Revolution; there was among them a nger, of great mildness and dignity of appearance, whom all eyes rested, and when his name was known air echoed with the cry, "Welcome, welcome, Laette!"

. I have seen many public festivities and ceremoIs, but never one, taken all together, of more genI interest than this. Everything was fortunate: were gratified; but the address was that which med uppermost in all minds and hearts. Mr. ebster was in the very zenith of his fame and of powers.

5. There was a grandeur in his form, an intelligence his deep dark eye, a loftiness in his expansive brow, significance in his arched lip, altogether beyond those any other human being I ever saw. And these, on e occasion to which I refer, had their full expression d interpretation.

6. In general, the oration was serious, full of weighty ought and deep reflection. Occasionally there were shes of fine imagination, and several passages of deep, erwhelming emotion.

7. I was near the speaker, and not only heard every ord, but I saw every movement of his countenance. When he came to address the few scarred and time-worn eterans some forty in number - who had shared in he bloody scene which all had now gathered to comemorate, he paused a moment, and, as he uttered the words, "Venerable men!" his voice trembled, and I could

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But ah, Him! the first gre cause! Him! the premature v devoting heart! Him, the head and the destined leader of our nothing brought hither but the his own spirit! Him! cut off hour of overwhelming anxiety a ere he saw the star of his countr generous blood, like water, befor would fertilize a land of freedom shall I struggle with the emotion ance of thy name!"

9. Here the eyes of the vete customed to tears, were filled to them "sobbed aloud in their ful orator went on:

"Our poor work may perish, b this monument may molder aw it rests upon may sink down to but thy memory shall not fail! men a heart shall be found that b of patriotism and liberty, its as claim kindred with thy spirit!"

10. I have never seen such an passage; a moment before, every brow was clouded, every eye was inspiration, every breast seemed n gaze to turn above, every face to b exulting enthusiasm. It was the

nce, which, like the agitated sea, carries a host n its waves, sinking and swelling with its irresistiundulations.

å, a space.

e, secret club or association.

als, series of historical events.

vet'er-ans, old and experienced sol

diers.

om-nip/o-tence, unlimited power. mem/o-rate, celebrate by a pub-un-du-la/tions, wave-like movements. zenith, height.

act.

tice the want of grammatical correspondence in paragraph 8. The r's warmth of emotion causes him to close with the direct address, name," instead of "his name."

I.

THE SURVIVORS OF THE BATTLE OF
BUNKER HILL.

WEBSTER.

DANIEL WEBSTER was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, January 18, 2, and died at Marshfield, Mass., October 24, 1852. He graduated at tmouth College in 1801. He studied law, and, after practicing in Portsth for some years, in 1816 removed to Boston. In a short time he stood he head of American advocates and orators.

During many years Webster held high public offices and was a chief leader ational affairs. He was chosen again and again to represent Massachusetts he Senate of the United States and was twice Secretary of State. In the ate he was distinguished as the ablest expounder of the Constitution, and parliamentary debater.

On great occasions Webster had no superior as an orator. His best efforts characterized by a massive and weighty eloquence, sound in thought and -le in diction. His delivery approached the majestic. "In person WebI was imposing, his head of great size, his eyes deep-seated and lustrous, voice powerful, sonorous, and flexible."

1. VENERABLE men! you have come down to us from former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthed out your lives, that you might behold this joyous y. You are now where you stood fifty years ago,

2. Behold, how altered! The deed, over your heads; the same o but all else how changed! You hostile cannon; you see no mixed flame rising from burning Charl strewed with the dead and the charge; the steady and successf call to repeated assault; the sum manly to repeated resistance; a tl and fearlessly bared in an instant there may be in war and death; witnessed, but you witness them 3. All is peace. The heights its towers and roofs, which you wives and children and country terror, and looking with unuttera issue of the combat, have presen the sight of its whole happy pop welcome and greet you with a un

4. Yonder proud ships, by a fe propriately lying at the foot of this fondly to cling around it, are not to you, but your country's own mea defense.

5. All is peace; and God has gi of your country's happiness ere grave. He has allowed you to be the reward of your patriotic toils; us, your sons and countrymen, to in the name of the present genera your country, in the name of liber

5. But, alas! you are not all here! Time and the ord have thinned your ranks.

Prescott, Putnam,

rk, Brocks, Reed, Pomeroy, Bridge, our eyes seek you in vain amid this broken band. You are gathd to your fathers, and live only to your country in - grateful remembrance and your own bright exple.

7. But let us not too much grieve that you have met è common fate of men. You lived at least long. ough to know that your work had been nobly and ccessfully accomplished. You lived to see your coun's independence established, and to sheathe your ords from war. On the light of Liberty you saw se the light of Peace, like

"another morn,

Risen on mid-noon";

d the sky on which you closed your eyes was cloud

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S.*

in'te-ous-ly, liberally. pet'u-ous, furious.

ewed (strood), scattered over. -trop'o-lis, chief city of a country;

here, the allusion is to Boston as the chief city of Massachusetts. ju/bi-lee, season of great public joy. is'sue (ish'oo), result.

Zonder proud ships (4). The United States Navy Yard at Charlestown situated at the base of Bunker Hill. Ships of war of the United States at anchor there. - Prescott, Putnam, etc. (6). Give some account of se men. Ebenezer Bridge and James Reed were colonels; John Brooks s a major. Seth Pomeroy (pum'-) fought bravely at Bunker Hill as a prie, but afterwards became a general.)

Explain: felicity of position (4); gathered to your fathers (6).

Where is Charlestown? Who fought against the Americans at Bunker 11? Can you tell anything about the battle?

*The extract in paragraphs 8 and 9 of the preceding lesson immediately lows, in Webster's oration, this paragraph.

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