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The National Fifth Reader; Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on Elocution, Select and Classified Exercises in Reading and Declamation Adapted to the Use of Students in Literature - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1867. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 27. " Hard by yon wood, now smiling as in scorn, Muttering his wayward fancies, would he rove, Now drooping, woful-wan, like one forlorn, Or crazed with care, or crossed in hopeless love. 28. "One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favorite tree : Another came,--rnor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood, was he : 29. " The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne ; Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn." THE EPITAPH. Here Rests His Head Upon The Lap Of Earth, A Youth To Fortune And To Fame Unknown : Fair Science Frowned Not On His Humble Birth, And Melancholy Marked Him For Her Own. Large Was His Bounty, And His Soul Sincere, Heaven Did A Recompense As Largely Send : He Gave To Misery--All He Had--A Tear, He Gained From Heaven ('twas All He Wished) A Friend. No Further Seek His Merits To Disclose, Or Draw ms Frailties From Their Dread Abode, (there They Alike In Trembling Hope Repose,) The Bosom Of His Father And His God. Gray. SECTION XXY. I. 135. THE PHANTOM SHIP. 1. THE breeze had sunk to rest, the noonday sun was high, And ocean's breast lay motionless beneath a cloudless sky, There was silence in the air, there was silence in the deep ; And it seemed as though that burning calm were nature's final sleep. 2. The mid-day watch was set, beneath the blaze of light, When there came a cry from the tall mast-head, "A sail! a sail, in sight!" And o'er the far hori'zon a snowy speck appeared, And every eye was strained to watch the vessel as she neared. 3. There was no breath of air, yet she bounded on her way, And the dancing waves around her prow were flashing into spray. She answered not their hail, alongside as she...
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