And where, on Essequibo's ba reigns. It glads Acadia's misty coasts isle; And bides where, gay with 5. It tracks the loud, swift Oregon, leys rolled; And soars where Californian bro sands of gold. It sounds in Borneo's camphor fierce Malay, In fields that curb old Ganges' proud Bombay. 6. It wakes up Aden's flashing eye swarthy limbs; The dark Liberian soothes her cradle hymns; Tasmania's maids are wooed and v speech; Australian boys read Crusoe's life tered beach. 7. It dwells where Afric's southmost broad and blue, And Nieuwveld's rugged mounta and waste Karroo. dles realms so far apart, that, while its praise you sing, may be clad with autumn's fruits, and those with flowers of spring. ickens lands whose meteor lights flame in an Arctic sky, lands for which the Southern Cross hangs its orbed fires on high. es with all that prophets told, and righteous men desired; all that great apostles taught, and glorious Greeks admired; Shakespeare's deep and wondrous verse, and Milton's lofty mind; Alfred's laws, and Newton's lore, to cheer and bless mankind. , as it spreads, how deserts bloom, and error flies away, anishes the mist of night before the star of day! grand as are the victories whose monuments we see, e are but as the dawn which speaks of noontide yet to be. eheed, then, heirs of Saxon fame! take heed! nor once disgrace, h deadly pen or spoiling sword, our noble tongue and race. Albion (2), the old and now poetic name of G (2). The Orkney Islands are a group of islands 1 Scotland. - Ju'ra (2), an island, one of the Inner of Scotland. - Mo'na (2), the Isle of Man, in t (2), ancient name of Ireland. Essequi'bo (esriver of British Guiana, in South America. - Ac of Nova Scotia. - A'den (ä'den) (6), a town and coast of Arabia. - Libe'rian (6). Liberia is a rep Africa. Tasmaʼnia (taz-) (6), a large island so formerly called Van Diemen's Land. - Sydney ( South Wales, in Australia. — Nieuwveld (nyev'è of Cape Colony in South Africa. - Karroo (7). lands occupying the terraces between the lofty mou called karroos. The largest of these is called the G Cross (8), a brilliant constellation in the Southe stars forming the figure of a cross. Find on the map Jamaica, the Oregon River, B the Ganges (-jēz), Bom-bay'. Can you tell who Mi Alfred? Newton ? Explain: kindles realms (7); meteor lights (8) you think the word "day-star" a good poetic nar LXVIII. — MORNING. EVERETT. EVERETT was one of the most illustrious citizens of the United was born in Dorchester, Mass., April 11, 1794, and died on 1865. He graduated at Harvard College with the highest honors en years of age. extensive course of study and travel in Europe, he returned home a distinguished career. He was Professor of Greek at Harvard member of Congress for ten years, repeatedly Governor of his Minister to England, President of Harvard University, Secretary a member of the national Senate. equally renowned as an orator, a scholar, and a statesman. He dresses and essays, all marked by consummate elegance and wing brilliant description is taken from an address on the "Uses y," delivered at the inauguration of the Dudley Observatory in the 28th of August, 1856. CAD occasion, a few weeks since, to take the in from Providence to Boston; and for this rose at two o'clock in the morning. Everyound was wrapped in darkness, and hushed e broken only by what seemed at that hour rthly clank and rush of the train. It was a ene, midsummer's night; the sky was withoud; the winds were whist. The moon, then ast quarter, had just risen, and the stars th a spectral luster but little affected by her iter, two hours high, was the herald of the e Pleiades, just above the horizon, shed their fluence in the east; Lyra sparkled near the Andromeda veiled her newly discovered glories e naked eye in the south: the steady Pointers, 3. Such was the glorious spectacl train. As we proceeded, the timid a became more perceptible; the intens began to soften; the smaller stars, went first to rest; the sister beams of melted together; but the bright co west and north remained unchanged 4. Steadily the wondrous transfig Hands of angels, hidden from morta scenery of the heavens; the glories into the glories of the dawn. The bl more softly gray; the great watch-st holy eyes; the east began to kindle. 5. Faint streaks of purple soon sky; the whole celestial concave wa inflowing tides of the morning light, ing down from above in one great o till at length, as we reached the Blue purple fire blazed out from above turned the dewy tear-drops of flower bies and diamonds. In a few second gates of the morning were thrown w lord of day, arrayed in glories too se of man, began his state. 6. I do not wonder at the supers cient Magians, who in the morning of up to the hilltops of Central Asia, and true God, adored the most glorious w But I am filled with amazement wher in this enlightened age, and in the hear world, there are persons who can w |