wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache for the dark house and the long sleep,- there is exhibited, in its noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens. The dervise, in the Arabian tale, did not hesitate to abandon to his comrade the camels with their load of jewels and gold, while he retained the casket of that mysterious juice, which enabled him to behold at one glance all the riches of the uni verse. Surely, it is no exaggeration to say, that no external advantage is to be compared with the purification of the intellectual eye, which gives us to contemplate the infinite wealth of the mental world; all the hoarded treasures of the primeval dynasties, all the shapeless ore of its yet unexplored mines. This is the gift of Athens to man. Her freedom and her power have for over more than twenty centuries been annihilated; her people have degenerated into timid slaves; her language into a barbarous jargon; her temples have been given to successive depredations of Romans, Turks, and Scotchmen; but her intellectual empire is imperishable. And, when those who have rivaled her greatness shall have shared her fate: when civilization and knowledge shall have fixed their abode in distant continents; when the scepter shall have passed away from England; when, perhaps, travelers from distant regions shall in vain labor to decipher on some moldering pedestal the name of our proudest chief; shall hear the savage hymns chanted to some misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple; and shall see a single naked fish erman wash his nets in the river of ten thousand masts,―her influence and her glory will still survive,-fresh in eternal youth, exempt from mutability and decay, immortal as the intellectual principle from which they derived their origin, and over which they exercise their control. THOMAS B. MACAULAY. Spell and pronounce :—accuracy, disquisition, pedestal, juice, elegance, valuable, supreme, infinite, primeval, degenerated, scaffold, prejudice, dynasties, assuages, gratitude, and eration. ven Synonyms.-infinite-boundless; immeasurable; illimitable; interminable; limitless; unlimited; unbounded. valuable-precious; costly; estimable. mutability - changeableness; instability; unsteadiness; inconstancy; fickleness; variableness. LESSON XCVIII. eōrps, an organized division of an army. drăb'bled, soiled by mud and dăsh'ing, bold; rapid. [water. mär'tial (shăl), military. THE RIDE OF JENNIE MCNEAL. Paul Revere was a rider bold Well has his valorous deed been told; But why should men do all the deeds The dashing ride of Jennie McNeal. On a spot as pretty as might be found In the dangerous length of the Neutral Ground, In a cottage cozy, and all their own, Safe were the two, with their frugal store, Her hair was the hue of a black-bird's wing. To generous, black-eyed Jennie McNeal. One night, when the sun had crept to bed, To catch a rebel colonel abed. He is visiting home, as doth appear; For the gray-haired colonel they hovered near, He had shown her how to fence and ride; With never a thought or a moment more, Grasped the reins with stern command; Hark! from the hills a moment mute, She heeded it not, and not in vain She lashed the horse with the bridle-rein. "Halt!" once more came the voice of dread, "Halt! or your blood be on your head!" Then, no one answering to the calls, Shed after her a volley of balls; They passed her in her rapid flight, They screamed to her left, they screamed to her right. But rushing still o'er the slippery track, She sent no token of answer back; Except a silvery laughter-peal, Brave, merry-hearted Jennie McNeal. So on she rushed, at her own good will, Through wood and valley, o'er plain and hill; The gray horse did his duty well, Till all at once he stumbled and fell, Himself escaping the nets of harm, But flinging the girl with a broken arm. |