EDWIN, AN ODE.

I. STROPHE.

Led by the pow'r of song, and nature's love, Which raise the soul all vulgar themes above,

The mountain grove

Would Edwin rove,

In pensive mood, alone;
And seek the woody dell,
Where noontide shadows fell,

Cheering,
Veering,

Mov'd by the zephyr's swell.

Here nurs'd he thoughts to genius only known,
When nought was heard around
But sooth'd the rest profound

Of rural beauty on her mountain throne.

Nor less he lov'd (rude nature's child)
The elemental conflict wild;

When, fold on fold, above was pil'd
The watery swathe, careering on the wind.
Such scenes he saw

With solemn awe,

As in the presence of th' Eternal Mind.

Fix'd he gaz'd,

Tranc'd and rais'd,

Sublimely rapt in awful pleasure undefin'd.

II. ANTISTROPHE.

Reckless of dainty joys, he finds delight
Where feebler souls but tremble with affright.
Lo! now, within the deep ravine,
A black impending cloud
Infolds him in its shroud,
And dark and darker glooms the scene.
Through the thicket streaming,
Lightnings now are gleaming;
Thunders rolling dread,
Shake the mountain's head;
Nature's war

Echoes far,
O'er ether borne.
That flash

The ash

Oaks of ages,

Writhing in the furious blast,
Wide their leafy honours cast;
Their gnarled arms do force to force oppose:
Deep rooted in the crevic'd rock,
The sturdy trunk sustains the shock,
Like dauntless hero firm against assailing foes.

III. EPODE.

'O Thou who sits above these vapours dense,
And rul'st the storm by thine omnipotence!
Making the collied cloud thy car,
Coursing the winds, thou rid'st afar,
Thy blessings to dispense.
The early and the latter rain,
Which fertilize the dusty plain,

Thy bounteous goodness pours.
Dumb be the atheist tongue abhorr'd!
All nature owns thee, sovereign Lord!
And works thy gracious will;
At thy command the tempest roars,
At thy command is still.
Thy mercy o'er this scene sublime presides:
'Tis mercy forms the veil that hides
The ardent solar beam;
While, from the volley'd breast of heaven,
Transient gleams of dazzling light,
Flashing on the balls of sight,

Make darkness darker seem.
Thou mov'st the quick and sulph'rous leven-

The tempest-driven
Cloud is riven;

And the thirsty mountain-side
Drinks gladly of the gushing tide.'

So breath'd young Edwin, when the summer shower
From out that dark o'erchamb'ring cloud,
With lightning flash and thunder loud,

Burst in wild grandeur o'er his solitary bower.-G. Brown.

THE END OF PART FOURTH.

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DESIGNED FOR ORAL EXERCISES,

UNDER

IE RULES OF SYNTAX AND THE NOTES.

e examples of False Syntax here explained, should be corrected orally by cording to the formules given under the rules; and the following correcterwards be used as examples for parsing, if necessary.]

UNDER RULE I.- ARTICLES.

ard saying.

Under Note 1.- An or A.

heart shall find favour.

om an earthly to a heavenly diadem.

the happiness of living with such a one. d a uniform adherence to the truth.

1 is an asylum for the sick.

ly a wonderful invention.
Inger man than we supposed.
me child is never long pleased.
man is unfit for an hostler.

Under Note 2. - Nouns Connected.

e sports: an eye is soon lost, or a bone broken. of the bucket, and the dust of the balance.

- was uttered, nor a sign given.

ot the doer, but the deed.

Under Note 3.-Adjectives Connected.

e difference between the old and the new method? nd the tenth have a close resemblance.

the right hand, or the left?

join the Atlantic, or the Pacific ocean?

uenced both by a just and a generous principle.
vas read by the old and the young.
a the large and the small grammar.
he north and the south line measured?

th line and the south both measured?

he north and the south lines measured? he north lines and the south measured?

Under Note 4.- Adjectives Connected.

will never have an other such chance.

you no repugnance to the torturing of animals ?

-ected some such answer.

I persecuted this way unto death.

Under Note 6.- Of Titles and Names.

entitled to the appellation of gentleman.

awell assumed the title of Protector.

father is honoured with the title of Earl.

chief magistrate is styled President.

highest title in the state is that of Governor.

Dak, pine, and ash, were names of whole classes of objects.

Under Note 7.-Of Comparisons.

s a better writer than reader.

vas an abler mathematician than linguist.

ould rather have an orange than an apple.

Under Note 8.-Nouns with Who or Which.

words (or, Those words) which are signs of complex ideas, are liable to be
sunderstood.

carriages which were formerly in use, were very clumsy.
place is not mentioned by the geographers who wrote at that time.

Under Note 9.-Participial Nouns.

ms are always necessary to the accomplishing of ends.

The seeing of the eye, and the hearing of the ear, learn wisdom. e keeping of his commandments, there is great reward.

the revealing of a secret, there is no remedy.

Under Note 10.-Participles, not Nouns.

The E

id talking too much of your ancestors.

He ch

Dear boasting of what you can do.

cuckoo keeps repeating her unvaried notes.

Triss

Whic

are alone; here's none but thou and I.

n that honour me, I will honour; and they that despise me, shall be htly esteemed.-1 Sam., ii, 30.

tho in that instance was deceived, is a man of sound judgement.

UNDER RULE III. - APPOSITION.

book is a present from my brother Richard, him that keeps the book

re.

going to see my friends in the country, them that we met at the ferry. dress was made by Catharine, the milliner, her that we saw at work. nis, the gardener, he that gave me the tulips, has promised me a piony.

Resolve me, why the cottager and king,
He whom sea-sever'd realms obey, and he
Who steals his whole dominion from the waste,
Repelling winter blasts with mud and straw,
Disquieted alike, draw sigh for sigh.-Young.

UNDER RULE IV.-ADJECTIVES.
Under Note 1.-Agreement.

igs of this sort are easily understood.

› broke those tongs?

ere did I drop these scissors?

g out those oats.

nguish those embers.

regard these minutiæ.

kind of injuries we need not fear.

at was the height of that gallows which Haman erected?

Under Note 2.Fixed Numbers.

rode about ten miles an hour.

for a thousand pounds.

deep is the water? About six fathoms.

lot is twenty-five feet wide.

ve bought eight loads of wood.

Under Note 3.-Reciprocals.

negatives, in English, destroy each other.-Lowth cor.

the heathens tolerated one an other, is allowed.-Fuller cor.

d and Jonathan loved each other tenderly.

ds are derived one from an other in various ways. Or better: Derivative

ards are formed from their primitives in various ways. - Cooper cor. hers like to see their pupils polite to one an other. - Webster cor.

Graces always hold one an other by the hand.

Under Note 4.-Of Degrees.

hose the last of these three.

yllables are often accented on the first syllable.

ch are the two most remarkable isthmuses in the world?

Under Note 5.- Of Comparatives.

Scriptures are more valuable than any other writings.

Russian empire is more extensive than any other government in the

rld.

1 loved Joseph more than all his other children, because he was the his old age.

Under Note 6, Of Superlatives.

■ill habits idleness is the most incorrigible,