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What books were most conspicuous on the Captain's bookshelf? What tells you that the Captain had read his Caesar many times?

What did he learn from Caesar's victories?

What excuse did he make, later, for not acting upon this principle?

Read the words in which John Alden tells why he will undertake the Captain's errand. What do you think of Alden's

description of his friend's character?

Read the lines in which Priscilla shows her love of truth and loyalty.

When does Miles Standish show himself most noble?

Learn John Alden's words of for giveness.

Who is the real hero of this poem?

Why do the Pilgrims seem more real when we read this poem than when we read of them in history?

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Nothing useless is, or low;

Each thing in its place is best;

And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.

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For the structure that we raise,
Time is with materials filled;

Our todays and yesterdays

Are the blocks with which we build.

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Truly shape and fashion these;
Leave no yawning gaps between;

Think not, because no man sees,

Such things will remain unseen.

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In the elder days of Art,

Builders wrought with greatest care

Each minute and unseen part;

For the Gods see everywhere.

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Let us do our work as well,

Both the unseen and the seen;

Make the house, where Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean.

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Else our lives are incomplete,

Standing in these walls of Time,

Broken stairways, where the feet

Stumble as they seek to climb.

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THE SKELETON IN ARMOR.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

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"SPEAK! speak! thou fearful guest! Who, with thy hollow breast Still in rude armor drest,

Comest to daunt me! Wrapt not in Eastern balms, But with thy fleshless palms Stretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou haunt me?"

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Then, from those cavernous eyes
Pale flashes seemed to rise,
As when the Northern skies
Gleam in December;
And, like the water's flow
Under December's snow,

Came a dull voice of woe

From the heart's chamber.

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"I was a Viking old!
My deeds, though manifold,
No Skald in song has told,
No Saga taught thee!
Take heed, that in thy verse
Thou dost the tale rehearse,
Else dread a dead man's curse;

For this I sought thee.

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