...of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! THE BELFRY OF BRUGES. IN the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown ; Thrice consumed...

...of Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! POEMS ON SLAVERY. 1842. [The following poems, with one exception, were written at sea, in the latter...

...cried through the startled air — ' Excelsior !' " A traveler, by the faithful hound, Half buried mes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression,...elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal ami fift ; Ai d from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell like a falling star — ' Excelsior !' " • We are...

...cried through the startled air — ' Excelsior !' " A traveler, by the faithful hound, Half buried in the snow was found — Still grasping in his hand...twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay ; Ai.d from the sky, serene and far, A voice fell like a falling star — ' Excelsior !' " We are sorry...

...was found, Still grasping in his hand of ice That banner with the strange device, — Excelsior ! 8. There, in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, — Excelsior ! QUSSTIONS. How ia ambition represented in thia piece ? 1. What was the derica on the banner of the...

...cold breath of the frost, he falls — yea, nobly falls — into the treacherous snow-drift, and " There in the twilight, cold and gray, Lifeless, but...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! " From the summit of human attainment on earth, he had gone to dwell in the blessed heaven of God....

...was the peasant's last good-night; A voice replied, far up the height, — Excelsior ! 7. A traveler, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in the snow was...That banner with the strange device, — Excelsior ! 8. There, in the twilight cold and gray, Lifeless, but beautiful, he lay, And from the sky, serene...

...of St. Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air, Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! LESSON LIX. Perseverance. ANONYMOUS. A SWALLOW in the spring Came to our granary, and 'neath the...

...Saint Bernard* Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air, Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! 1. Excelsior is a Latin word, meaning " higher," and the moral of this poem is the same as Montgomery's...

...Saint Bernard Uttered the oft-repeated prayer, A voice cried through the startled air, Excelsior ! A traveller, by the faithful hound, Half-buried in...far, A voice fell, like a falling star, Excelsior ! CARILLON. IN the ancient town of Bruges, In the quaint old Flemish city, As the evening shades descended,...