4. That which made these men, and men like these, cannot die. 5. The hand that traced the charter of Independence is, indeed, motionless; the eloquent lips that sustained it are hushed; but the lofty spirits that conceived, resolved, and maintained it, and which alone, to such men, "make it life to live," these cannot expire. “These shall resist the empire of decay, When time is o'er, and worlds have passed away; I. LANGUAGE EXERCISE. Warren" (2), a patriot of the American Revolution, killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. Vernon - Mount Vernon, the residence of Washington (see Lesson 50). "The hand that traced the charter of Independence" is an allusion to Thomas Jefferson. "That which made these men, and men like these, cannot die." III. Transpose to the prose order: "Cold in the dust the perished heart may lie, But that which warmed it once can never die." 65.- Farmer John. blow'ing, blossoming. elutched, seized, grasped. glâre, bewildering light. 1. HOME from his journey, Farmer John Arrived this morning safe and sound; Ha, ha, old Gray! Do you get good feed while I'm away. 2. "You haven't a rib," says Farmer John; And a beauty, too; how he has grown! And he slaps old Gray, "Ah! this is the comfort of going away. 3. "For, after all," says Farmer John, "The best of a journey is getting home: For all their Paris and Rome; Would you, old Gray? That's what one gets by going away. 4. "There Money is king," says Farmer John, "And Fashion is queen; and it's mighty queer To see how sometimes, while the man The wife spends, every year, Enough, you would think, for a score of wives, The town is a perfect Babylon To a quiet chap," says Farmer John. "You see, old Bay, You see, old Gray, I'm wiser than when I went away. 5. "I've found out this," says Farmer John, And clutched in a life of waste and hurry, Mortgage and stocks, and ten per cent, And you, old Gray, That's what I've learned by going away." 6. And a happy man is Farmer John, - The large kind oxen look their thanks As he rubs their foreheads and strokes their flanks; The doves light round him, and strut and coo, And you, old Bay, And you, old Gray, Next time I travel so far away." LANGUAGE EXERCISE. I. To what part of the world, do you gather, farmer John had been during his journey?"A perfect Babylon" (4): here Babylon "that great city," is taken as the representation of any luxurious metropolis. What colloquial expression (4) means very strange? What colloquial word (4) means person? What expression (5) means large interest? Explain "a beauty" (2); "stocks" (5); "the buckwheat blowing" (6). II. Write the full forms of: "I'm " (3); “I'll" (1); “I've” (3); "we'll" (2); “it's" (4); “isn't" (5). III. Change to the prose order: — "Home from his journey Farmer John arrived." "A happy man is Farmer John." Point out two examples of personification in stanza 4. 66.-The Giant of Doubting Castle. ease, situation, plight. eon-dōle', to lament. griēv'oùs, causing grief. PART I. rāt'ing, scolding. tres passed, entered on another's grounds without leave. 1. Now there was, not far from the place where Christian and Hopeful lay, a castle, called Doubting Castle, the owner of which was Giant Despair; and it was in his grounds they now were sleeping. Wherefore he, getting up in the morning early, and walking up and down in his fields, caught Christian and Hopeful asleep in his grounds. 2. Then with a grim and surly voice he bade them |