2.The storm that I wrecks the | wintery | sky | MI No more dis- turbs their deep re- | pose, | Than summer | evening's | latest | sigh, | That shuts the rose. MI 1771771 3. I long to | lay this | painful | head | Take home thy | child. MIMI 1 5. On | thy | dear | lap these | limbs re- | clined, | Shall gently moulder | into | thee: MI Nor leave one | wretched | trace be- | hind, | Re-sembling | me. 1771 6. Hark! a | strange | sound | af- frights mine | ear; | 771 My pulse, my brain | runs | wild, 771 7. The | Grave, I rave; | hear? | 11 Hath | found at | length a❘ tongue | to | chide: MI 8. Art thou a wretch, of | hope for- | lorn, | 9. Do | foul mis- | deeds Wring with re- | morse 1971 of | former | times 111 thy | guilty | breast? | And | ghosts of | unfor- | given | crimes | By the dread | secrets of my | womb, | 12. charge thee, | live! re- | pent and | pray; | In dust thine | infamy | de- | plore ; | There yet is mercy; || go thy | way, | 13. What e'er thy | lot, who | e'er thou | be, | And in thy chastening | sorrows see 14. A bruised | reed he will not | break; 11711 Afflictions || all his children | feel, | 91 He wounds them for his mercy's sake, Through time's | dark wilderness of years, | 17.There is a calm for | those who | weep, God's glorious | image, || freed from | clay, 11 In heaven's e-ternal | sphere shall | shine | A star of | day!11111 O Lord, 3. PSALM CXXXIX. thou hast | searched me, and I known me. IMI Thou | knowest my | down- | sitting and mine | up-| rising ; || thou under- | stand t my | thoughts a- far off. 1!111111 Thou compassest my | path, and art ac quainted with | thou word in my | knowest it | alto- | 5 and myllying | down, gether. Thou hast be set me be- | hind and be- fore,and | laid thine | hand up- | on me. MIT knowledge is | too | wonderful for | me: 11717 it I cannot at- | tain unto it. 10 | Such Whither from thy | spirit? | or | whither shall I flee from thy | presence? | MIMIIf I as- cend parts of the sea: || Even | there | shall lead me, if I | make the uttermost thy hand hold me. 20 cover me: bout me: thee; If I 77 even the and thy | right hand shall | say, | Surely the | darkness shall night shall be | light a- | Yea, the darkness | hideth | not from | but the | night | shineth as the | day:|17| and the light are both a- | like to the darkness thee. 771791 For further training on the principles of this section it is recommended to the learner to score his own exercises and then read them. Let him commence by marking the heavy syllables in pieces selected for that purpose, both prose and poetry. When he has acquired a facility in doing this, then let him in these same pieces determine the places for the rests, which, it is important to add, will be of more frequent recurrence in dignified than in sprightly style. And when he has done this, he will be prepared to commence dividing the matter into measures, and to test the correctness of the division by attempts to read the pieces thus scored. This exercise will be of special service to those readers who have fallen into the habit of giving an improper stress to unimportant words, or of reading with a measured, scanning movement of the voice. This error is more common in the reading of poetry than of prose, and is often acquired in childhood, while learning to read under bad instruction. But in the training of the public speaker it will perform a much more important part, as it will not only adapt his delivery to the principles of good faste, but to that regular action of the heart and lungs which is so essential to the healthful exercise of the functions of life, but which is always interrupted just so far as the principles of this section are violated in speech. Persons of easy and graceful delivery speak according to these principles, though they may never have studied them; and in view of the consequences of their violation, we can scarcely avoid wishing that the movements of the voice were as little influenced by neglect, or subject to derangement by bad habits, as are the movements of the heart. Then would they always act in harmony, and health would at least generally be promoted rather than injured 1y the exercise of speaking. SECTION II. OF PAUSES. RESTS in speech are to sentences, what the division into syllables is to words;—their object being to separate the language by which thought is expressed, into portions corresponding with the sense; for the purpose of presenting to the ear an idea of the connection of the thought, as more or less intimate and close. The clearness, and especially the dignity of style depend materially on the minute observance of all the requisite rests. That the learner may know what these are, the following enumeration is made. The pauses marked by the comma, semicolon, colon, period, and other points which divide discourse into sentences, are for this reason called Sentential or Grammatical pauses. Of these, important as they are in a grammatical point of view, nothing need here be said, but that in the language of emotion, they give no intimation as to tone or inflection, nor even indicate with any definiteness the length of the pause. The comma, for example, sometimes, when it marks only the grammatical relation of words, indicating no rest of the voice, as in "Yes, Sir," "No, Sir;" and at others, being used to mark a rest altogether beyond its ordinary length. In the last section another set of pauses was developed, which depend entirely on the mechanism of the voice, and are independent of the usual marks of punctuation. Connecting themselves necessarily with the natural measured movement of the voice, they may be called by way of distinction Rhythmic pauses. Nothing need here be added concerning these, except the remark, that these two classes of pauses are from their very nature so interspersed in all |