Eliza Cook.
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SPELL, a verse or phrase or word supposed to have
magical power; a charm.
HALLOWED, made holy.
HOLLOWED, made a hole out of; made hollow. Use
these two words in sentences of your own.
What is meant by “Memory flows with lava tide?”
Write a two-paragraph description of an old arm-chair.
Your imagination will furnish you with all needed
details.
Divide the following words into their syllables, and
mark the accented syllable of each:
absurd, every, nature, mature, leisure, valuable,
safety, again, virtue, ancient, weather, history,
poetry, mother, genuine, earliest, fatigued, business.
The dictionary will aid you.
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crags break tongue thoughts ha’ ven sail’
or state’ ly
Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thoughts that arise in me.
O well for the fisherman’s
boy,
That he shouts with his sister at play!
O well for the sailor lad,
That he sings in his boat on the bay!
And the stately ships go on
To the haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!
Break, break, break,
At the foot of thy crags, O sea!
But the tender grace of a day that is dead
Will never come back to me.
Tennyson.
[Illustration: Tennyson]
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barns deaf en ing i dol’ a trous pon’
der ca lum’ ni ate Be at’ i tudes
The Old Law, the Law given to the Jews on Mount Sinai,
tended to inspire the fear of God, which is the beginning
of wisdom. It was given amidst fire and smoke,
thunders and lightnings, and whatever else could fill
the minds of the Jews with fear and wonder. Compelled,
as it were, by the idolatrous acts of His chosen people,
by their repeated rebellions, and their endless murmurings,
God showed Himself to them as the almighty Sovereign,
the King of kings, the Lord of lords, whose holiness,
power, majesty, and severity in punishing sin, filled
their minds with awe and dread.
It was not thus that the New Law, the Law of grace
and love, was given to the world. No dark cloud
covered the mount of the Beatitudes from which our
Lord preached; no deafening thunders were heard; no
angry flashes of lightning were visible. There
was nothing forbidding in the voice, words, or appearance
of the Divine Lawgiver. In the whole exterior
of our Savior there was a something so sweet, so humble,
so meek and captivating, that the people were filled
with admiration and love.
