Where Luxury reigns o'er voluptuous plains, Then give to me in my flights to see The land of the pilgrims ever free! And I never will rove from the haunts I love, O, guard ye well the land where I dwell, Till ye quenched the flame in a starless night. Then will I tear, from your pennon fair, A craven race in the land of the free! Notes and Questions.-The American Eagle is used as an emblem of freedom. Mention some of our coins upon which it is placed. Columbia is a name applied to the United States in honor of Columbus, the discoverer of America. What does each star stand Describe the flag of our country. for? How many stripes are used? What do the colors signify? Elocution. - Read the lesson in a full and clear tone of voice, expressive of courage and a sense of freedom. Language. What is the force of the suffix et in the word eaglet? In some words the letter is prefixed to the suffix, making it let, as in stream-let, wave-let. Such words as roar and crash are called mi met'ic, because their sound gives an idea of their meaning. 20.-AN ir règ'ū lar, not well formed. com'bined', joined; united. ICEBERG. Isles (ilg), islands. At twelve o'clock we went below, and had just got through dinner when the cook put his head down the companion-way, and told us to come on deck and see the finest sight we had ever seen. "Where away, cook?" asked the first man who came up. "On the port bow." And there lay floating in the ocean, several miles off, an immense irregular mass, its tops and points covered with snow, and its center of a deep indigo color. This was an iceberg, and of the largest size, as one of our men said who had been in the Northern Ocean. As far as the eye could reach, the sea in every direction was of a deep blue color, the waves running high and fresh, and sparkling in the light; and in the midst lay this immense mountain island, its cavities and valleys thrown into deep shade, and its points and pinnacles glittering in the sun. All hands were soon on deck, looking at it, and admiring its beauty and grandeur. No description can give any idea of the strangeness and beauty of the sight. Its great size-for it must have been two or three miles in circumference, and several hundred feet in height; its slow motion as its base rose and sunk in the water, and its high points nodded against the clouds; the dashing of the waves upon it, which, breaking high with foam, lined its base with a white crust; and the thundering sound of the crackling mass, and the breaking and tumbling down of huge pieces, together with its nearness and approach, which added a slight element of fear-all combined to give it the character of true sublimity. The main body of the mass was, as I have said, of an indigo color, its base crusted with frozen foam; and as it grew thin and transparent toward the edges, its color shaded off from a deep blue to the whiteness of snow. It seemed to be drifting slowly toward the north, so that we kept away and avoided it. It was in sight all the afternoon, and when we got to leeward of it, the wind died away, so that we lay to, quite near it, for the greater part of the night. Unfortunately there was no moon; but it was a clear night, and we could plainly mark the long, regular, heaving mass, as its edges moved slowly against the stars. Several times in our watch loud cracks were heard, which sounded as though they must have run through the whole length of the iceberg, and several pieces fell down with a thundering crash, plunging heavily into the sea. Toward morning a strong breeze sprung up, and we filled away, and left it astern, and at daylight it was out of sight. No pencil has ever yet given any thing like the true effect of an iceberg. In a picture they are huge, uncouth masses stuck in the sea; while their chief beauty and grandeur-their slow, stately motion, the whirling of the snow about their summits, and the fearful groaning and crackling of their parts— the picture can not give. This is the large iceberg; while the small and distant islands, floating on the smooth sea, in the light of a clear day, look like little floating fairy isles of sapphire N. R. H. DANA, JR. Biography. - Richard Henry Dana, jr., was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1815, and died in 1881. When about twenty years of age, he made a voyage to San Francisco, an account of which was published in 1840 under the title of "Two Years Before the Mast." Probably no book has been written which gives such an accurate picture of sailorlife; and its popularity, both in this country and in England, has been remarkable. Mr. Dana was for many years a distinguished member of the Boston Bar, but his national reputation is due to his books. "The Seaman's Friend," containing a treatise on practical seamanship, was published in 1841, and republished in London in 1856. Notes.- Port signifies the side of a boat which is at the left hand of a person looking toward the bow. The companion-way is the name of a staircase leading from the deck to the cabin of a ship. Sapphire is a gem of a bluish color. Elocution.· -The long sentences used in description, should be read somewhat more slowly than conversation. The pauses, both grammatical and rhetorical, should be carefully regarded. Point out the location of the rhetorical pauses in the last paragraph of the lesson. Language.-Let us select a subject and a predicate from the lesson and join them to form a sentence. 66 Example.-"A breeze" (subject) 'sprung up" (predicate). Adding an adjective to the subject and an adverbial phrase to the predicate, we have "A strong wind sprung up toward morning." This is called a simple sentence because it contains only a single subject and a single predicate. If we join to this sentence another sentence-"We sailed away," and use a connecting-word "and" between them, we shall have a compound sentence. Compose two compound sentences, after the model just given. In ages long past there lived an emperor who was excessively fond of new clothes. He spent at least half of his time in his wardrobe, looking at his costly robes, and trying on one after another, to see which best pleased his fancy. One day there came to his capital two clever rogues who declared that they were weavers, and able to produce a fabric surpassing every other in color and design, but that the clothes made from it had the wonderful property of becoming invisible to any one who was unfit for the office he held, or unworthy of the esteem of his fellow-men. "What capital clothes those would be!" thought the emperor. “If I wore such clothes, I should be able to see what men in my empire are unfit for their posts and unworthy of my confidence. Yes, I will have a suit of those clothes made directly." So orders were given to the two rogues to begin at once. As for them, they put up a loom and pretended to be working; but in reality it was all a pretense. They demanded the finest silk and the purest gold; these they put in their pockets, and worked at their empty loom from morning till night. "I should like to know how the weavers are get |