sweep, 30
And softly part his curtains to allow
Thy visit, grateful to his burning brow.

Go,--but the circle of eternal change,
Which is the life of nature, shall restore,
With sounds and scents from all thy mighty range, 35
Thee to thy birthplace of the deep once more;
Sweet odours in the sea-air, sweet and strange,
Shall tell the home-sick manner of the shore;
And, listening to thy murmur, he shall dream
He hears the rustling leaf and running stream. 40

--_William Cullen Bryant_

PREPARATORY.--Describe fully the picture suggested by
(_a_) the first three lines of stanza i, (_b_) the last
four lines of stanza i, (_c_) stanza ii. Give to each a
suitable title.

1, 2, and 6. (Appendix A, 3, 4, and 8.)

1. THOU. What is the Inflection?

6. How does the sound accord with the sense?

15. GO FORTH ... GO FORTH. Where is the Emphasis?
(Introduction, p. 31.)

19-21. What feeling is aroused? How is the Quality of
voice affected? (Introduction, p. 34.)

25-32. What change in Time? Account for it.
(Introduction, p. 13.)

31. What atmosphere is created in this line? What
Quality of voice is the result? What lines in the last
stanza have the same atmosphere? (Introduction, p. 34.)

36. With what should THEE be connected? In what way?

33-36. What portions are read in lighter Shading?
(Introduction, p. 33.)

* * * * *

PARADISE AND THE PERI

From "Lalla Rookh"

One morn a Peri at the gate
Of Eden stood, disconsolate;
And as she listened to the Springs
Of Life within, like music flowing,
And caught the light upon her wings 5
Through the half-open portal glowing,
She wept to think her recreant race
Should e'er have lost that glorious place!
"How happy," exclaimed this child of air,
"Are the holy spirits who wander there, 10
'Mid flowers that never shall fade or fall;
Though mine are the gardens of earth and sea,
And the stars themselves have flowers for me,
One blossom of Heaven out-blooms them all!"

The glorious Angel, who was keeping 15
The Gates of Light, beheld her weeping;
And, as he nearer drew and listened
To her sad song, a tear-drop glistened
Within his eyelids, like the spray
Fr