t where a myriad stars were spread;
While down in the east, where the light was least,
Seem'd the home of the quiet dead. 5
And, as I gazed on the field sublime,
To watch the bright, pulsating stars,
Adown the deep where the angels sleep
Came drawn the golden chime
Of those great spheres that sound the years 10
For the horologe of time.
Millenniums numberless they told,
Millenniums a million-fold
From the ancient hour of prime.

--_Charles Heavysege_

PREPARATORY.--Compare other passages from literature
which suggest the "music of the spheres," for example:
Dryden's _Song for Saint Cecilia's Day, The Moonlight
Scene_ from _The Merchant of Venice_, Milton's _The
Hymn_.

What is the atmosphere of ll. 1-4? Of ll. 5-14? In what
two different Qualities of voice do the corresponding
feelings find expression?

Read ll. 6-11, with a view to Perspective.

Note the Grouping in ll. 9-11.

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ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been,
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told 5
That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet never did I breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken; 10
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He stared at the Pacific--and all his men
Looked at each other with a wild surmise--
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

--_John Keats_

PREPARATORY.--How is the fundamental idea of this sonnet
illustrated in _The Key to Human Happiness?_ (p. 266.)

What feeling pervades the last six lines? In which line
is this feeling most marked? In what Quality of voice
does it find expression? (Introduction, pp. 33-35.)

Select the words which are emphatic through contrast,
expressed or implied. (Introduction, p. 32.)

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GREAT THINGS WERE NE'ER BEGOTTEN IN AN HOUR

Great things were ne'er begotten in an hour;
Ephemerons in birth, are such in life;
And he who dareth, in the noble strife
Of intellects, to cop