nd no longer from its brazen portals
ast of War's great organ shakes the skies!
tiful as songs of the Immortals,

oly melodies of love arise.

uilding where weapons | be-lea'guered (-gerd, g as in get), ade or stored. surrounded by an army.

sim'fo-), unison or har- di-a-pa'son (-zun), the whole cominds. pass of tones.

e (miz-), the 51st Psalm, sung to express penitence. The Latin with Miserere mei, Domine!" Have mercy on me, O Lord! 1). The Cimbri were ancient tribes of Northern Germany. Scandinavians, people of ancient Norway and Sweden. The Aztecs occupied Mexico when the Spaniards conquered is (-lis), pyramidal structures used by the Aztecs or ancient religious purposes.

CVII. PATRIOTISM.

MEAGHER.

Francis MeaghER (mā'her) was born in Ireland, in 1823. gaged in a political movement in favor of "home rule" in Irearrested, convicted, and banished for life to Van Diemen's Land. ping he took refuge in the United States (1852). During our ed with distinction on the side of the North.

in Montana, in 1867.

REFT of patriotism, the heart of a nation will and cramped and sordid; the arts will have ring impulse, and commerce no invigorating ciety will degenerate, and the mean and the riumph.

criotism is not a wild and glittering passion, orious reality. The virtue that gave to Pagandazzling lusters, to Barbarism its redeeming

altar in every clime, its worship and 3. On the heathered hills of Scotla Wallace is yet a bright tradition. The in the brilliant literature of the day, pa age to the piety and heroism of the Orleans. In her new senate hall, E sculptor place, among the effigies of h the images of Hampden and Russell. graceful capital of Belgium, the daring has reared a monument, full of glorious three hundred martyrs of the revolution

4. By the soft blue waters of Lake the chapel of William Tell. On the a revolt and victory, across those waters in the July sun, skim the light boats of tons; from the prows hang the banner lic; and as they near the sacred spot t Lucerne chant the hymns of their old po bursts forth the glad Te Deum, and hea the voice of that wild chivalry of the m five centuries since pierced the white e and flung it bleeding on the rocks of

5. At Innspruck, in the black aisle of dral, the peasant of the Tyrol kneels be of Andreas Hofer. In the defiles and Tyrol who forgets the day on which he walls of Mantua? It is a festive day 1 quiet, noble land.

6. In that old cathedral his inspiri recalled amid the pageantries of the al appears in every house; his victories a

in the songs of the people; and when the ›wn, a chain of fires, in the deep red light of eagle spreads his wings and holds his giddy claims the glory of the chief whose blood has ative land a sainted spot in Europe.

images.

a system of society by the worship of

e gods.

de-gen'er-ate, fallen to a low or base state; degraded.

păg/eant-ries (paj'ent-riz), pompous shows or displays.

(3). John Hampden was an English patriot who resisted the res of Charles I. — Russell (3). William, Lord Russell, was triot who was beheaded on a false charge in 1683. Geefs guished Belgian sculptor. The revolution referred to is that resulted in freeing Belgium from Holland. Te Deum (4), hristian hymn in Latin. The first words are "Te Deum laudaaise Thee, O God! Uri ('ree). Tell was born and lived of Uri. —- Innspruck (ins'prūʊk) (5). The capital city of the .-An'dreas Ho'fer (5) led the Tyrolese peasantry against ch and Bavarians. At last he was seized and shot by order of Mantua, in 1810.

COLLINS, an English lyric poet, who was a friend of Dr. John-
Goldsmith, was born in 1720, and died in 1756. His poems are
native. He excelled in the power of personification,
the giv-
uesque shape and pictorial hue to abstractions." The "Ode to
"and the "Ode to Evening" are among his best.

ow sleep the Brave who sink to rest
y all their country's wishes blest!
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
eturns to deck their hallowed mold,
he there shall dress a sweeter sod
"han Fancy's feet have ever trod.

There Honor comes, a pilgrim
To bless the turf that wraps tl
And Freedom shall awhile repa
To dwell a weeping hermit the

CIX. THE DIGNITY OF

REV. DR. MCCLINTOCK.

JOHN MCCLINTOCK, D. D., who died in 1870, in h a distinguished Methodist clergyman and pulpit orat and a voluminous writer He graduated at the Univ His most important literary work is the "Cyclopædia cal, and Ecclesiastical Literature," of which he and editors.

Residing in Paris during our Civil War, Dr. M country great service by his pen and voice.

1. UNTIL you make the experiment o yourself to the test of toil, you know no are made of, nor what faculties you p wish to know what you are? Act, an out; slumber, and you shall never k alone does a man's nature project itse tangible, intelligible reality; in action character unfolded.

2. The dark germ within lies sleepi until the man obeys his destiny and being by the determination to act; a atmosphere of labor, under the free s warm sunshine, it grows and is devel ing branches and extended boughs, wi