your little sister by such a hard name, when you'd got nothing big to say, like-wasn't it, Master Marner?"

"We called her Eppie," said Silas.

GEORGE ELIOT.

Spell and pronounce:— ceremony, determination, suspicion, guinea, gymnastic, jealousy, meditatively, surprise, gravity, merging, persuaded, Aaron, petticoats, recurring, succession, and Hephzibah.

Synonyms. - contemptuous-scornful; insolent; haughty; disdainful; supercilious; insulting; contumelious; affrontive; abusive; fastidious. communicate-impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; make known. accompany-attend; escort. determination-decision; conclusion; judgment; purpose; resolution; firmness; resolve.

Ye nymphs of Solyma, begin the song:
To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong.
The mossy fountains and the sylvan shades,
The dreams of Pindus and the Aonian maids,
Delight no more. O Thou my voice inspire,
Who touched Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire!

Rapt into future times, the bard begun:

A Virgin shall conceive, a Virgin bear a Son!
From Jesse's root behold a branch arise,

Whose sacred flower with fragrance fills the skies:

The ethereal spirit o'er its leaves shall move,
And on its top descends the mystic Dove.
Ye heavens, from high the dewy nectar pour,
And in soft silence shed the kindly shower.
The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid,
From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade.
All crimes shall cease, and ancient frauds shall

fail;

Returning Justice lift aloft her scale;

Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend,

And white-robed Innocence from heaven descend.
Swift fly the years, and rise the expected morn!
O, spring to light, auspicious Babe, be born!
See, nature hastes her earliest wreaths to bring,
With all the incense of the breathing spring!
See lofty Lebanon his head advance!
See nodding forests on the mountains dance!
See spicy clouds from lowly Sharon rise,
From Carmel's flowery top perfume the skies!
Hark, a glad voice the lonely desert cheers;
Prepare the way! a God, a God appears!
A God, a God! the vocal hills reply;
The rocks proclaim the approaching Deity.
Lo, earth receives Him from the bending skies;
Sink down, ye mountains; and ye valleys rise;
With heads declined, ye cedars, homage pay;
Be smooth, ye rocks; ye rapid floods, give way!
The Saviour comes! by ancient bards foretold:
Hear Him, ye deaf: and all ye blind, behold!
He from thick films shall purge the visual ray,
And on the sightless eyeball pour the day:
'Tis He the obstructed paths of sound shall clear,
And bid new music charm the unfolding ear:
The dumb shall sing; the lame his crutch forego,
And leap exulting like the bounding roe.

No sign, no murmur, the wide world shall hear;
From every face He wipes off every tear.

In adamantine chains shall death be bound,
And hell's grim tyrant feel the eternal wound.
As the good shepherd tends his fleecy care,
Seeks freshest pasture and the purest air,
Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs,
By day o'ersees them, and by night protects;
The tender lambs he raises in his arms,
Feeds from his hand, and in his bosom warms;
Thus shall mankind His guardian care engage,
The promised father of the future age.
No more shall nation against nation rise,
Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes;
Nor fields with gleaming steel be covered o'er,
The brazen trumpets kindle rage no more:
But useless lances into scythes shall bend,
And the broad falchion in a ploughshare end.
Then palaces shall rise; the joyful son
Shall finish what his short-lived sire begun;
Their vines a shadow to their race shall yield,
And the same hand that sowed shall reap the field.
The swain in barren deserts with surprise
Sees lilies spring, and sudden verdure rise;
And starts, amidst the thirsty wilds to hear
New falls of water murmuring in his ear.
On rifted rocks, the dragon's late abodes,
The green reed trembles and the bulrush nods.
Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn,
The spiry fir and shapely box adorn:

To leafless shrubs the flowery palms succeed,

And odorous myrtle to the noisome weed.

The lambs with wolves shall graze the verdant

mead,

And boys in flowery bands the tiger lead:

The steer and lion at one crib shall meet,
And harmless serpents lick the pilgrims' feet.
The smiling infant in his hand shall take
The crested basilisk and speckled snake;

Pleased the green luster of the scales survey,
And with their forky tongue shall innocently play.
Rise, crowned with light, imperial Salem rise!
Exalt thy towery head, and lift thy eyes!
See a long race thy spacious courts adorn!
See future sons and daughters yet unborn,
In crowding ranks on every side arise,
Demanding life, impatient for the skies!
See barbarous nations at thy gates attend,
Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend!
See thy bright altars thronged with prostrate kings,
And heaped with products of Sabean springs!
For Thee Idume's spicy forests blow,
And seeds of gold in Ophir's mountains glow.
See heaven its sparkling portals wide display,
And break upon Thee in a flood of day!
No more the rising sun shall gild the morn,
Nor evening Cynthia fill her silver horn;
But lost, dissolved in Thy superior rays,
One tide of glory, one unclouded blaze

O'erflow Thy courts: the Light Himself shall shine,
Revealed, and God's eternal day be thine!
The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay,
Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away;
But fixed His word, His saving power remains;
Thy realm for ever lasts, Thy own Messiah reigns!
ALEXANDER POPE.

Explain:-"nymphs of Solyma," "dreams of Pindus," "Isaiah's hallowed lips," see lofty Lebanon his head advance," "lowly Sharon rise, "imperial Salem rise," "Ophir's mountains."

LESSON. CXVIII.

něç'es sa ry, requisite; essential. gov'ern ment, system of polity

in a state.

ad min'is tered, managed as public affairs.

prěj'u diç eş, prejudgments.

in ĕv'i ta bly, unavoidably; cer-
tainly.

con found'ed, confused.
con stĭt'u ents, those who elect
a representative. [opinion.
ū'na nìmʼity, agreement in

THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.

Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults-if they are such-because I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.

I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. For, when you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views. From such an assembly can a perfect production be expected?

It, therefore, astonishes me, Sir, to find this system approaching so near to perfection as it does; and I think it will astonish our enemies, who are waiting with confidence to hear that our counsels are confounded like those of the builders of Babel, and that our States are on the point of separation, only to meet hereafter for the purpose of cutting one another's throats.