are alike darkness to them: is it not nobler to waken, all the day long, in redeemed households, such spontaneous songs of joy as the statue of 'Memnon never uttered, and to send dreams of paradise, by night, to visit the once thorny pillow of wife and children?

6. Rise, then, from the feigned to the real, and by reluming the human countenance with the light of long-departed joys, convert your long-departed joys convert your own loveliest emblems into gloriou realities. As you await a happy moment of inspiration to give the last, lighting-up touches to your own choicest works; so seize the higher inspirations of benevolence to solace the disconsolate, and thus give a hallowing finish, an unfading halo, to your own fame, and consecrate the immortality you win.

7. YOUNG MEN, you last, you chiefest, let me implore! You, whose precious privilege it still is, to make life long by commencing the performance of its duties early!.Where lie your own welfare, your own honor, your own blessedness? Lie they not in that future course of life which is to flow out of your own minds and hearts, and which your own hands are to fashion, as the temple is fashioned by the builder? The Future, that greatest heritage on earth, is all your own. Dilate, expand your thoughts to some comprehension of its value.

8. Each day is a tablet which is put into your hands, unmarked by a single line. Your thoughts, your resolves, your deeds, for that day, are engraven upon it; it is then taken away and deposited in the chambers of the indestructible Past. There, by an irreversible law of God, it must remain forever; nor time, nor decay, nor man, nor angels, can ever obliter ate a word of its eternal record. Let that record be your glory, and not your shame, forever.

9. When a Roman youth passed from minority to manhood, when he ceased to be a child in the family, and became a pillar of the State, the day of his emancipation was celebrated with solemn services. The ceremony of putting on the graceful garment of man

hood, in token that the duties of manhood were then to be assumed, was performed on some great festival day of the nation, amid crowds of assembled friends, and under the auspices of his household gods.

10. Thence, in long procession, they moved to some public temple, where, with songs and vows, they implored the divinities to crown with honor and usefulness the life of the new-born citizen; while he himself was commended, and, as it were, apprenticed, to the example of some of the city's illustrious men. Such were the solemn rites and aspirations which ushered a young man into life in pagan Rome. What holy resolutions, then, what self-consecration of the entire life to truth and duty, befit the aspiring and ingenuous youth of the American republic!

11. As your fathers are swiftly passing away into the realms of science, do not all the transcendent interests of society, its prosperity, its happiness, its honor in distant lands and in distant times, devolve upon yoú? How is all that is precious in our public institutions to be ennobled, and transmitted, from early ancestors to late posterity, unless one generation after another shall receive and improve, and then pass it onward, as from hand to hand ?

12. Grasp, then, this conception of your high destiny. Embody it in deeds. Your power to fulfill it, is the choicest boon of Heaven; and ere the habits, the morals, the institutions of society, pass beyond your reach forever, redeem them from all pollution, cast out from them the seeds of death and every element of decay, and imbue them with the immortal strength of knowledge, purity, and Temperance.

JUESTIONS.-1. What question is addressed to painters and sculptors? 2. For what are they desired to spare a brief hour? 3. How is it suggested that songs of joy may be wakened? 4. What does he call upon young men to do? 5. What is said of the ceremony of passing a Roman youth from his minority to manhood? With what exhortation does the piece conclude?

6.

Are the questions in the 2d and 5th paragraphs direct or indirect? What rule for the rising inflection on builder, 7th paragraph} Why the rising inficction on you, 11th paragraph!

LESSON CXLVIII.

SPELL AND DEFINE-1. AC CUS' ING, charging with crime; blaming. 2. AN TIQUE', ancient; old. 3. IN GRATES, ungrateful persons. 4. Aw' ED, struck with fear. 5. AD JUST', arrange; settle. 6. DoMAINS', possessions. 7. A GHAST', struck with sudden fear. 8. UN MAIM' ED, not disabled; unharmed. 9. IM PELL' ED, urged; moved. 10. IN OLINES', turns; bends. 11. GROP ING, feeling for something in the dark. 12. LE' GAL, in accordance with law. 13. A WRY, turned or twisted toward one side. 14. CHA GRIN' ED, fretted; dis pleased. 15. DE TAIL' ED, related in particulars.

THE ACCUSING-BELL, OR THR BLIND HORSE.

FROM THE GERMAN OF LANGBEIN, BY OLIVER OLDHAM.

1. What means that wondrous belfry there
Within the market-place,

With neither gate nor door to bar
The wingéd wind's fleet pace?
Do men rejoice, or do they mòan,
When this old bell is heard?
Besides, what means that form of stone
The lofty steed there reared?

2. 'Tis oft that passing strangers ask:
"What can these wonders be?"
Be mine, my friend, the cheerful task
To tell the tale to thee :-
:-
"INGRATITUDE'S ACCUSING-BELL,"
This antique thing they call:
With glory round it hover still
Our fathers' spirits all.

8. Unthankfulness, e'en in their day,
Was this world's foul reward;
Hence did they here this form display,
And by it ingrates awed.
Whoever felt that serpent's sting,
To him the right was given,
Himself the accusing-bell to ring,
Though it were midnight even.

4. Then, day or night, in frost or thaw, Come forth the judges must,

And seek, according to the law,

The matter to adjust.

Then weighed not rank, then weighed not gold;
Alike stood slave and lord;

Those judges were not awed nor sold:
They spoke the righteous word.

5. Within the century just expired,
Near here there lived a soul,
Who had by luck or trade acquired
Of wide domains control.
Of riches told his costly dress,
And style of life, of course;
For use he kept,-for show no less,
A splendid saddle horse.

6. When riding once, at twilight dim,
Forth rushed six robbers fell,
From thickets dark, and set on him
With tiger spring and yell.
Now all aghast, his menaced life
Seemed on a hair suspended;
When, lo! against the fearful strife
His horse's speed defended.

7. All white with foam, the steed soon brought
His master home unmaimed;
When he, impelled by grateful thought,
His horse's worth proclaimed;
Then gravely made this solemn vow:-
"To thee, my gallant gray,

Prime oats abundant I'll allow,

Until thy latest day."

8. At length the horse grew old and sick;
Was stiff, and lame, and blind;
When gratitude, alas! too quick
Forsook his master's mind.
He basely sought the beast to sell;
But vain his efforts all;

Then suddenly, with spirit fell,

He drove him from his stall.

9. And there, he stood the door-way near,
Till eight long hours passed round
And oft inclines his listening ear
When steps within resound.

And now the stars shed forth their light:
Poor horse! unhoused, unfed:
Thus doomed to pass the chilly night:
The frosty stones his bed.

10. Still lingering there the following day,
The wretched creature stood;
Till forced by hunger's sting away
To seek for needed food.

Around him, though the sun bright beamed,
Thick darkness drew her curtain;
And he that once all winged seemed,
Now walked with step uncertain.

11. His right foot slow he forward moved,
Before a step he trode;

And, step by step, he testing proved
The safety of the road.

Thus groping sadly through the streets,
He grazes 'long the ground;

And

grasps at every straw he meets,
As precious treasure found.

12. At last, by hunger's fiercer might,
To skin and bones brought near,
He stumbled once, at dead of night,
Into the bell-house here.

All eager, 'neath starvation's pang,
He seized the bell-rope there;
And, while he gnawed, the old bell rang
Loud through the midnight air.

13. The startled judges hurrying came,
According to the law;

And loud exclaimed, in wonder's name,
When they the ringer saw.

They went not back, in sportive mood,
Their downy beds to seek;

But all amazed, they cried :-""Tis God
That through this bell doth speak!"