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In our isle's enchanted hall,

Hands unseen thy couch are strewing,
Fairy streams of music fall,

Every sense in slumber dewing.

Soldier, rest! thy warfare ō'er,

Dream of fighting fields no more;
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,
Morn of toil, nor night of waking.

No rude sound shall reach thine ear,
Armor's clang, or war-steed champing,
Trump nor pibroch summon here
Mustering clan, or squadron tramping.
Yet the lark's shrill fife may come,
At the daybreak from the fållōw,
And the bittern sound his drum,

Booming from the sedgy shallow.
Ruder sounds shall none be near,
Guards nor warders challenge here,
Here's no war-steed's neigh and champing,
Shouting clans or squadrons stamping.

II.

FORCE.

ORCE1 is the volume or loudness of voice, used on

the same key or pitch, when reading or speaking. There are three general degrees: LOUD, MODERATE, and GENTLE.

Loud
Force Moderate
Gentle

For an Exercise on Force, select a sentence, and deliver it on a given key, with voice just sufficient to be heard, then gradually increase

the quantity, until the whōle power of the voice is brought into play. Reverse the process, without change of key, ending with a whisper.

2. Loud Force is used in strong, but suppressed passions, and in emotions of sorrow, grief, respect, veneration, dignity, apathy, and contrition; as,

1. How like a fawning publican he looks!
I hate him, for that he is a Christian.
If I but catch him once upon the hip,

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

2. VIRTUE takes place of all things. It is the nobility of ANGELS! It is the MAJESTY of GOD!

3. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean-roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain.

4.

O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned,
Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the God
Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars
Hide their diminished heads; to thee I call,
But with no friendly voice, and add thy name,
O SUN, to tell thee how I hate thy beams,
That bring to my remembrance from what state
I fell, how glōrious once above thy sphere;
Till pride and worse ambition threw me down,
Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless King.

3. Moderate Force, or a medium degree of loudness, is used in ordinary assertion, narration, and description; as,

1. What is the blooming tincture of the skin,

2.

To peace of mind and harmony within?
What the bright sparkling of the finest eye,
To the soft soothing of a calm reply?
Can comeliness of form, or shape, or air,
With comeliness of words or deeds compare?
No! those at first the unwary heart may gain,
But these, these only, can the heart retain.
I have seen
A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract
Of inland ground, applying to his ear
The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell:

To which, in silence hushed, his věry soul
Listened intently;-and his countenance
Brightened with joy; for murmurings from within
Were heard, sonorous cadences! whereby,
To his belief, the monitor expressed
Mysterious union with its native sea.
Even such a shell the universe itself
Is to the ear of Faith.

3. Some feelings are to mortals given,
With less of earth in them than heaven:
And if there be a human tear

From passion's dross refined and clear,
A tear so limpid and so meek,
It would not stain an angel's cheek,
'Tis that which pious fathers shed
Upon a duteous daughter's head!

4. Gentle Force, or a slight degree of loudness, is used to express caution, fear, secrecy, and tender emo

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tions; as,

1.

2.

3.

First FEAR, his hand, its skill to try,
Amid the chords bewildered laid;
And back recoiled, he knew not why,
E'en at the sound himself had made.

Heard ye the whisper of the breeze,
As softly it murmured by,
Amid the shadowy forest trees?

It tells, with meaning sigh,

Of the bowers of bliss on that viewless shōre,
Where the weary spirit shall sin no mōre.

They are sleeping! Who are sleeping?

Pause a moment-softly tread;
Anxious friends are fondly keeping
Vigils by the sleeper's bed!

Other hopes have all forsaken;

One remains that slumber deep:
Speak not, lest the slumberer waken
From that sweet, that saving sleep.

III.

QUALITY.

Q

UALITY has reference to the kinds of tone used in reading and speaking. They are the PURE TONE, the OROTUND, the ASPIRATED, the GUTTURAL, and the TREMBLING.

2. The Pure Tone is a clear, smooth, round, flowing sound, accompanied with moderate pitch; and is used to express peace, cheerfulness, joy, and love; as,

1.

Methinks I love all common things-
The common air, the common flower;

The dear, kind, common thought, that springs
From hearts that have no other dower,
No other wealth, no other power,
Save love; and will not that repay
For all else fortune tears away?

2.

A garland for the hero's crest,

And twined by her he loves the best;

To every lovely lady bright,

What can I wish but faithful knight?
To every faithful lover too,

What can I wish but lady true?
And knowledge to the studious sage;
And pillow soft to head of age.
To thee, dear school-boy, whom my lay
Has cheated of thy hour of play,

3.

4.

Light task, and merry holiday!

To all, to each, a fair good night,

And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!

"Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark

Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come;

"Tis sweet to be awakened by the lark,

Or lulled by falling waters; sweet the hum
Of bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds,
The lisp of children, and their earliest words.
It is the hour, when from the boughs

The nightingale's high note is heard;
It is the hour, when lovers' vows

Seem sweet in every whispered word;
And gentle winds, and waters near,
Make music to the lonely ear.
Each flower the dews have lightly wet,
And in the sky the stars are met,

And on the wave is deeper blue,

And on the leaf a browner hue,

And in the heaven that clear obscure,
So softly dark, and darkly pure,

Which follows the decline of day,

As twilight melts beneath the moon away.

3. The Orotund is the pure tone deepened, enlarged, and intensified. It is used in all energetic and vehement forms of expression, and in giving utterance to grand and sublime emotions; as,

1.

Strike-till the last armed foe expires;
STRIKE-for your altars and your fires;
STRIKE-for the green graves of your sires,
GOD-and your native land!

2. Half a league, half a league, half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade! charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death rode the six hundred.