ing moon and blow,
Blow him again to me;
While my little one, while my pretty one sleeps.

--Tennyson.

5.

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for a hermitage.

--Lovelace.

6.

Merrily swinging on brier and weed,
Near to the nest of his little dame,
Over the mountain side or mead,
Robert of Lincoln is telling his name:
Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link,
Spink, spank, spink,
Snug and safe is this nest of ours,
Hidden among the summer flowers.
Chee, chee, chee.

--Bryant.

7.

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in His hand
Who saith, "A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!"

--Browning.

+109. Feet.+--The metrical effect of the preceding selections is produced
by the regular recurrence of accented and unaccented syllables. A group of
accented and unaccented syllables is called a foot. There are four regular
feet in English verse, the iambus, the anapest, the trochee, and the
dactyl. Three irregular feet, the pyrrhic, the spondee, the amphibrach,
are occasionally found in lines, but not in entire poems, and are often
considered merely as substitutes for regular feet. For the sake of
convenience the accented syllables are indicated thus: _, and the
unaccented syllables thus: U.

_An iambus_ is a foot consisting of two syllables with the accent on the
last.

U _| U _| U _| U _| U _|
Let not ambition mock their useful toil.

--Gray.

U _|U _| U _|U _|
He prayeth best who loveth best

U _| U _| U _|
All things both great and small;

_ U | U _| U _|U _|
For the dear God who loveth us,

U _| U _|U _|
He made and loveth all.

--Coleridge.

_An anapest_ is a foot consisting of three syllables with the accent on
the last.

U U _| U U _|U U _|
I am monarch of all I survey.
U U _ | U U _ | U U _ |
I would hide with the beasts of the chase.

_A trochee_ is a foot consisting of two syllables with the accent on the
first.

_ U | _ U | _ U | _ U|
Double, double, toil and trouble.

--Shakespeare.

_ U | _ U |_ U |_ U |
Let us then be up and doing,
_ U| _ U | _U | _ |
With a heart for any fate,
_ U |_ U | _ U|_ U |
Still achievi