select a simple sentence, -a complex sentence, a compound

sentence.

III. "Spring" is spoken of as a ship in paragraph 3: it comes sailing in," etc. This way of speaking is called a metaphor: show how this idea of the ship is carried out. What descriptive expression is applied to "frogs" in paragraph 7? Point out two examples of personification.

35. The Voice of Spring.

bow'er, a shady recess.

fāne, a temple.

hes-pē'ri-an, western.
lāy, song.

1. I COME, I come! ye have called me long;

I come o'er the mountains with light and song:
Ye may trace my steps o'er the waking earth,
By the winds which tell of the violet's birth,
By the primrose stars in the shadowy grass,
By the green leaves opening
leaves opening as I pass.

2. I have breathed on the South, and the chestnut flowers

By thousands have burst from the forest bowers,
And the ancient graves, and the fallen fanes,
Are veiled with wreaths on Italian plains,
But it is not for me, in my hour of bloom,
To speak of the ruin or of the tomb!

3. I have passed o'er the hills of the stormy North, And the larch has hung all his tassels forth;

The fisher is out on the sunny sea,

And the reindeer bounds through the pastures free;
And the pine has a fringe of softer green,

And the moss looks bright where my step has
been.

4. I have sent through the wood-paths a gentle sigh,
And called out each voice of the deep blue sky,
From the night-bird's lay through the starry-time
In the groves of the soft Hesperian clime,
To the swan's wild note by the Iceland lakes
When the dark fir-bough into verdure breaks.

5. From the streams and founts I have loosed the

chain;

They are sweeping on to the silvery main;
They are flashing down from the mountain-brows,
They are flinging spray on the forest boughs;
They are bursting fresh from their sparry caves,
And the earth resounds with the joy of waves.

6. Come forth, O ye children of gladness, come!
Where the violets lie may now be your home.
Ye of the rose-cheek and dew-bright eye,
And the bounding footstep, to meet me fly;
With the lyre, and the wreath, and the joyous

lay,

Come forth to the sunshine: I may not stay!

LANGUAGE EXERCISE.

I. What is meant by "the waking earth" (1)? Explain "veiled with wreaths" (2). In which stanza is there a reference to the nightingale? What expression (5) means I have thawed the ice?

II. Write the analysis:

shadowy

joyous

silvery

III. In this poem Spring is represented as addressing us: what is this figure of speech called?

Read carefully the picture of the South ("Italian Plains "), in the second stanza. Point out some of the features in this picture. Read the companion picture of the stormy North": select characteristic features.

Change to the prose order:

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"By thousands have burst from their forest bower."

"Where the violets lie may now be your home."

eon-signed' (kon-sīnd'), given păġ'eant, a grand show, a spec

over.

de-sery'ing, beholding.

tacle.

tem-pěst'u-oŭs, very stormy.

1. In the spring of 1493, while King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella were at Barcelona, letters were received from Christopher Columbus, announcing his return to Spain, after the discovery of land beyond the western ocean. The sovereigns were exceedingly anxious to learn all the details of this most wonderful discovery,

and they at once sent a request to Admiral Columbus to come to Barcelona.

2. The great navigator had, as is well known, succeeded, after a voyage attended with all kinds of dif ficulties, in descrying land, on Friday, the 12th of October, 1492. After some months spent in exploring the delightful regions now for the first time thrown open to the eyes of a European, he embarked in the month of January, 1493, for Spain. One of his vessels had previously foundered, another had deserted him; so that he was left alone to retrace his course across the Atlantic.

3. After a most tempestuous voyage, he was compelled to take shelter in the Tagus, much against his inclination. After a brief delay the admiral resumed his voyage, and entered the harbor of Palos on the 15th of March, 1493,- exactly seven months and eleven days after his departure from that port.

4. Great was the agitation in the little community of Palos, as they beheld the well-known vessel of the admiral re-entering their harbor; for their desponding imaginations had long since consigned him to a watery grave. Most of them had relatives or friends on board. They thronged immediately to the shore, to assure themselves with their own eyes of the truth of their return.

5. When they beheld their friends once more, and saw them accompanied by the many tokens which

they brought back of the success of the expedition, they burst forth in shouts of joy. They awaited the landing of Columbus. Then the whole population of the place accompanied him and his crew to the principal church, where solemn thanksgivings were offered up for their return, while every bell in the village sent forth a joyous peal in honor of the glorious event.

6. But the admiral was too desirous of presenting himself before the sovereigns to stay long at Palos. He took with him on his journey specimens of the products of the newly-discovered regions. He was accompanied by several of the native islanders, arrayed in their simple barbaric costumes, and decorated, as he passed through the principal cities, with collars, bracelets, and other ornaments of gold, rudely fashioned. He exhibited also several kinds of quadrupeds unknown in Europe, and birds whose varieties of gaudy plumage gave a brilliant effect to the pageant.

7. The admiral's progress through the country was everywhere impeded by the multitudes thronging forth to gaze at the extraordinary spectacle, and the more extraordinary man, who had first revealed the existence of a New World. As he passed through the busy, populous city of Seville, every window, balcony, and house-top which could afford a glimpse of him was crowded with spectators.

It was the middle of April before Columbus reached Barcelona. The nobility and cavaliers in