2. How do those globes of light exist on high, Each in itself a bright immensity?

How from th' infinite distance where they reign, Each circled with a planetary train,

Comes, through the mighty void, the point of light Which marks their being to our finite sight?

3. This earth,

how hangs she in this airy space,
Forever, with her stupendous power and grace,
Revolving in her huge apportioned way,
Since first she felt the sun's attracting ray?

4. How doth this wedded mass her balance keep?
What hand sustains her in the vaulted deep,--
Her frame of iron, and her heart of fire,
With mountains vast, and seas for her attire,
Oft veiled by clouds of every form and hue,
Light-floating in the atmospheric blue,
Bearing the rains, the thunders, and the storms,
And gemmed with wondrous meteoric forms,
While round her play mysterious polar lights,
And shooting-stars add splendor to her nights?

. How from cold water, from the air and earth,
Came substance, hue and fragrance, into birth?
And all the animate and beauteous things
That move around us with sustaining wings,
Or poise their forms upon the watery deep,
Or walk upon the earth, or glide, or creep?

6. And man, the beautiful, the strong, the free, Heaven's great mystery!—whence is he? Yes; whence is he whose intellect has trod The path of wisdom, and learned of God? E'en where the light of wisdom hath not shone, The human intellect hath reared a throne

Higher than earth, and placed upon that shrine
Such image as it deemed were all divine,
Endowed it with the passions and the sway
Which man might fear, and worship, and obey.
Yes; in the lowest place that man has trod,
His darkened intellect has sought a God.

- eternal and the same!

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7. God, Light, and Life,
Father of spirits! we have learned thy name;
And, by thine all-pervading influence taught,
We see thee in whate'er thy power hath wrought.
The intellect which thou, O God, hast given,
Looks up through Nature to her Source in heaven,
And reads in earth, in ocean, and in air,

Thy power, thy love, thy beauty everywhere.

QUESTIONS.-1. What is the subject of this lesson? 1. From what do these myste riesing? 1-3. What are they? 4. What is meant by "this wedded mass"? 4. Describe it. 5. What things are mentioned in this stanza? 6. What is said of man? 7. How are these mysteries solved? Who is the Source of all things? Which kind of q- ions prevail in this lesson? With what inflection should they be read?

LESSON LXIII.

2. THOUGHT'LESS, witho reflection.
2. PON'DER, to weigh in the mind.
2. A-TONE', to make satisfaction for.

2. RECKLESS, rash, inconsiderate.

3. CON'QUER, to overcome.

4. PO'LAR, pertaining to the pole-star. 4. BE-TIDE', to come to pass.

4. CONFLICTS, strifes, contests.

ERRORS.-Geard for guard; read for round; wal for well; und for and; con'. kwer for con'quer (konk'er).

* Goethe (gurt'her) (John Wolfgang von) was born August 28, 1749, at Frankforton-the-Maine. He was the greatest modern poet of Germany: and he justly occupied an eminent place in European literature. He united, in an extraordinary degree, power of imagination and power of expression, and was pre-eminently the poet of phi losophy. He died at Weimar on the 22d of March, 1833.

Bear it with thee as a spell;

Storm or sunshine, guard it well!

Heed not flowers that round thee bloom;
Bear it onward to the tomb!

2. Haste not; - let no thoughtless deed
Mar for e'er the spirit's speed:
Ponder well and know the right,
Onward then with all thy might:
Haste not;-years can ne'er atone
For one reckless action done!

3. Rest not; -life is sweeping by,
Do not dare, before you die;
Something mighty and sublime
Leave behind to conquer time;
Glorious 't is to live for aye,

When these forms have passed away!

4. Haste not! rest not! calmly wait,
Meekly bear the storms of fate;
Duty be thy polar guide ;-

Do the right, whate'er betide!

Haste not! rest not!

Conflicts past,

God shall crown thy work at last.

ASTIONS

5. So, 'mid the contest and toil of life,

My soul! when the billows of rage and strife

Are tossing high, and the heavenly blue

Is shrouded by vapors of somber hue,

Like the petrel wheeling o'er foam and spray,
Onward and upward pursue thy way.

Who was Goethe? 1. What is the motto here mentioned? 1. What should you do with it? 2. What advice is here given? 2. Why should you not haste? 8. Why should you not rest? 3. What should you leave behind? 4. What should be your guide? 4. What should you do? 5. What comparison is in this stanza? --What elocutionary rules are illustrated by this piece?

LESSON

1. VOL-CA'NOES, burning mountains.
2. E-RUP'TION, a violent emission of flames
and lava from a volcano.

3. CRATER, the mouth of a volcano.
3. CREV'IC-ES, cracks, fissures.

LXIV.

4. IN-TER-MIT TING, ceasing for a time.
6. DI-AM'E-TER, distance through the center
8. AG-I-TA'TION, a shaking or trembling.
8. SUB-TER-RA'NE-AN, under ground.
8. PRO-JECT'ED, thrown out.

ERRORS. Sing'lar for sin'gu-lar; voy'lent for vi'o-lent; prin'ci-pul for prin'ci-pal; reglar-ly for reg'u-lar-ly; hithe for height (hīte); ac'ci-dunse for ac'ci-dents.

THE GEYSERS.* - NORdhoff...

1. ICELAND† is noted for the great number of its volcanoes and hot springs. There are thirty known volcanoes; and eight of these have been active within the last hundred years.

2. It is singular that in the southeastern part of the island, where the ice has long been accumulated in the greatest quantities, the eruptions have been most violent and destructive. The last eruption was in 1846; and Hecla on that occasion did much damage.

3. In the vicinity of the volcanoes, almost the entire surface of the ground is covered with hot springs, and small craters and crevices, from which issue smoke and steam. The most remarkable of the boiling springs are the Geysers.

4. These throw out, at intervals, large streams of water, or mixed mud and water. Sometimes large stones are hurled high in air with the water, such is the force of the fountain. I will give you some account of the principal one of these intermitting fountains.

5. The Great Geyser, as it is called, is situated in the midst of about one hundred other hot and mud springs, of all sizes and shapes. The form of the Great Geyser itself is that of an immense saucer-shaped bowl or basin, perforated at the bottom, the hole extending far into the ground, through which boiling water is constantly ascending.

* Gey'sers, (gy'serz,) the name of several natural fountains in Iceland, which spou orth boiling water to a great height.

Ice land, a large island in the North Atlantic Ocean.

6. The bowl, which is always filled with water, is about · sixty feet across, and four feet deep. The aperture at the bottom of the bowl is from ten to fifteen feet in diameter, and is said to run down perpendicularly nearly seventy feet.

7. The Geysers are not always in full operation. Some play at regular intervals of several hours. The Great Geyser, however, has no regularly recurring periods of display. Its eruptions occur sometimes several times in a day, and at others but once in two or three days.

8. They are preceded by an unusual agitation of the water in the bowl, and a succession of subterranean explosions, which can be heard at some distance. When these have continued several minutes, the water is projected into the air in a massive column twelve or fourteen feet in diameter, -the entire size of the orifice whence it issues!

9. The average height to which the top of this column reaches has been ascertained to be ninety feet. Just think of a body of water ninety feet high, and more than forty feet in circumference! It continues playing for six or eight minutes; and a loud, roaring noise accompanies the exhibition.

10. In the numerous boiling springs, food can be, and sometimes is, cooked. Meat, potatoes, eggs, or any thing else which can be fitly prepared by boiling, will, if placed in the spring for a few minutes, be perfectly cooked. Some of the springs, however, are sulphurous; and such would give an unpleasant taste to food boiled in them.

11. In many places in the vicinity of the springs, the ground is so soft that persons walking over it are in danger of breaking through. Of course, when such accidents happen, and they sometimes do, the person is more or less scalded by the steam which rushes out wherever an opening is made.

QUESTIONS. What are the Geysers? 1. For what is Iceland noted? What is said of Iceland? 2. What is mentioned as singular? 3. With what is the ground covered near the volcanoes? 4. What do these Geysers do? 5. 6. What is said of the Great Geyser? 7, 8. Describe it previous to an eruption. 8, 9. Describe the column of water projected. 10. What may be cooked in these springs? 11. What is said of the ground near the springs? What is the character of the composition of this piece?