arp violins proclaim
Their jealous pangs and desperation,
Fury, frantic indignation,
Depth of pains, and height of passion 40
For the fair, disdainful dame.

But oh! what art can teach,
What human voice can reach
The sacred organ's praise?
Notes inspiring holy love, 45
Notes that wing their heavenly ways
To mend the choirs above.

Orpheus could lead the savage race,
And trees unrooted left their place,
Sequacious of the lyre: 50
But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder higher:
When to her organ vocal breath was given
An angel heard, and straight appear'd
Mistaking Earth for Heaven.

GRAND CHORUS

As from the power of sacred lays 55
The spheres began to move,
And sung the great Creator's praise
To all the blessed above;
So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour, 60
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky.

--_John Dryden_

What feeling pervades the first and last stanzas? The
second stanza? In what Quality of voice does each of
these feelings find expression? (Introduction, pp.
33-35.)

Illustrate by means of the third, fourth, and fifth
stanzas the extent to which Imitation enters into
reading. (Introduction, pp. 4 and 5.)

Account for the gradually increasing Emphasis in ll.
11-15, 48-54, and 60-63. (Introduction, p. 31.)

3-6. What is the Shading and Inflection? (Introduction,
pp. 16 and 33.) Compare with these ll. 55-61.

16. What is the Inflection on this question?
(Introduction, p. 19.) Compare with this ll. 42-44.

21. THEY THOUGHT. How does the reader give to these
words the force of a parenthetical clause?
(Introduction, p. 33.)

22-23. Note the Grouping.

31. How does the voice make the transition to direct
discourse? (Introduction, p. 24.)

42-54. What is the mental attitude? What is the
corresponding Stress? (Introduction, p. 29.)

44. ORGAN'S. Account for the marked Emphasis on this
word. Compare BRIGHT CECILIA, l. 51.

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THE DAY WAS LINGERING

The day was lingering in the pale northwest,
And night was hanging o'er my head,--
Nigh