6. And the mighty rocks came bounding down, Their startled foes among,

With a joyous whirl from the summit
thrown-

Oh the herdsman's arm is strong!
They came like lauwine hurl'd

From Alp to Alp in play,

When the echoes shout through the snowy world,

And the pines are borne away.

7. The fir-woods crash'd on the mountain-side, And the Switzers rush'd from high, With a sudden charge, on the flower and pride

Of the Austrian chivalry :

Like hunters of the deer,

They storm'd the narrow dell,
And first in the shock, with Uri's spear,
Was the arm of William Tell.

8. There was tumult in the crowded strait, And a cry of wild dismay,

And many a warrior met his fate
From a peasant's hand that day!

And the empire's banner then,
From its place of waving free,
Went down before the shepherd-men,
The men of the Forest-sea.

9. With their pikes and massy clubs they brake The cuirass and the shield,

And the war-horse dash'd to the reddening lake

From the reapers of the field!

The field-but not of sheaves-
Proud crests and pennons lay,

Strewn o'er it thick as the birch-wood
leaves

In the autumn tempest's way.

Grammar.—(1) Analyse first two lines in third verse. (2) Make two sentences having (a) "when" as a conjunction, and (b) "when" as an adverb. (3) Form six nouns from six adjectives.

LESSON XLVII.

THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.

lower, descend.

banditti, robbers.

1. Between the dark and the daylight,

When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations That is known as the Children's Hour.

2. I hear in the chamber above me
The patter of little feet,

The sound of a door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.

3. From my study I see in the lamplight,
Descending the broad hall-stair,
Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra,
And Edith with golden hair.

4. A whisper, and then a silence :

Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together To take me by surprise.

By three doors left unguarded
They enter my castle wall!

6. They climb up into my turret

O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere.

7. They almost devour me with kisses;
Their arms about me entwine,

Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen
In his mouse-tower on the Rhine!

8. Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old moustache as I am
Is not a match for you all!

9. I have you fast in my fortress,
And will not let you depart,

But put you down into the dungeons
In the round tower of my heart.

10. And there will I keep you for ever,
Yes, for ever and a day,

Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,
And moulder in dust away y!

LONGFELLOW.

Grammar. (1) Parse all the verbs in the last verse.

(2) Analyse verse 7.

LESSON XLVIII.

THE INDIAN HUNTER.

gleaner, one who gathers handfuls of bitter feelings, hard thoughts.

corn left by the reapers.

sheaf grew white and thin, but little corn was left; the autumn was far gone.

ploughshare, the part of the plough which "shears" or cuts the ground. furrow, the trench made by a plough. stubble land, the ground with the stumps left in after the corn is cut. cleft, split up.

perilous, dangerous.

aloof, away from.

sun stole out from their solitudes,
shone through the leafless trees.
mellow fruit, quite ripe.
lawn, smooth grass plat.
lea, meadow or field; Sax. ley, occurring
in so many proper names, as Bingley.
measured strokes, regular beats.
hewed, cut down.

golden horn, when the moon was in
its first quarter.

brake, thicket.

skeleton, the bones.

populous haunts, thickly-peopled silver tide, water bright with the

localities.

sun's light.

1. When the summer harvest was gathered in, And the sheaf of the gleaner grew white and thin,

And the ploughshare was in its furrow left, Where the stubble land had been lately cleft,

An Indian hunter, with unstrung bow, Looked down where the valley lay stretched below.

2. He was a stranger there, and all that day Had been out on the hills-a perilous way; But the foot of the deer was far and fleet, And the wolf kept aloof from the hunter's feet,