passion like their own, leaps up, in ravings mightier than theirs, and the whole scene is madness. 2. On, on, on, over the countless miles of angry space roll the long heaving billows. Mountains and caves are here, and yet are not: for what is now the one is now the other; then all is but a boiling heap of rushing water. Pursuit, and flight, and mad return of wave on wave, and savage struggle, ending in a spouting up of foam that whitens the black night; incessant change of place, and form, and hue; constancy in nothing, but eternal strife; on, on, on, they roll, and darker grows the night, and louder howls the wind, and more clamorous and fierce become the million voices in the sea, when the wild cry goes forth upon the storm, "A ship!" 3. Onward she comes, in gallant combat with the elements, her tall masts trembling, and her timbers starting on the strain; onward she comes, now high upon the curling billows, now low down in the hollows of the sea, as hiding for the moment from its fury; and every storm-voice in the air and water cries more loudly yet, "A ship!" 4. Still she comes striving on: and at her boldness and the spreading cry, the angry waves rise up above each other's hoary heads to look; and round about the vessel, far as the mariners on the decks can pierce into the gloom, they press upon her, forcing each other down, and starting up, and rushing forward from afar, in dreadful curiosity. High over her they break, and round her surge and roar; and giving place to others, moaningly depart, and dash themselves to fragments in their baffled anger. 5. Still she comes onward bravely. And though the eager multitude crowd thick and fast upon her all the night, and dawn of day discovers the untiring train yet bearing down upon the ship in an eternity of troubled water, onward she comes, with dim lights burning in her hull, and people there, asleep, as if no deadly element were peering in at every seam and chink, and no drowned seaman's grave, with but a plank to cover it, were yawning in the unfathomable depths below. DICKENS.6 buf-fet cav-erns New Words in this Lesson. un-fath-om-a-ble 1 Caverns, caves in rocks. Buffet, fight; struggle. 2 In-ces-sant, continual. Hue, colour. Notes and Meanings. In-ces-sant, continual; ever going on. 3 Elements, wind and water. Timbers, wood of which the ship is made. 4 Hoary heads, foam-crested waves 5 Untiring train, never-wearying suc- Un-fath-om-a-ble, so deep that they Summary:-A ship out in mid-ocean is a thrilling sight. How gallantly she forces her way over miles of heaving billows, her tall masts trembling, and her timbers starting on the strain. Now she is high upon the curling billows, now low down in the hollow of the sea. Onward she bravely presses, as if no enemy lurked near and no danger beset her path. Exercises-1. Write an essay on the Ocean: its size, appearance; its various parts, Atlantic, etc. 2. Draw a map of the Atlantic Ocean. 3. The Latin prefix con (together) has the forms of co, cog, col, com, and coras, co-operate, to work together; cognate, born together, of the same family; collect, to gather together; compose, to put together; correspond, to agree to gether. Make sentences containing co-operate, cognate, collect, compose, correspond. THE TREASURES OF THE DEEP. 1. What hidest thou in thy treasure-caves and cells, We ask not such from thee. 2. Yet more, the depths have more! What wealth untold, Sweep o'er thy spoils, thou wild and wrathful main ! 3. Yet more, the depths have more! Thy waves have rolled Above the cities of a world gone by! Sand hath filled up the palaces of old, Dash o'er them, Ocean, in thy scornful play! 4. Yet more, the billows and the depths have more ! 5. Give back the lost and lovely! those for whom 6. To thee the love of woman hath gone down ; Earth shall reclaim her precious things from thee !—— Summary: The Sea is welcome to keep her glistening pearls and manycoloured shells; the spoils gained from shipwrecks-gems and gold; and the cities that have been overwhelmed by her waves. The one thing that she must give up, that she dare not retain, is the dead-the true and brave, the lost and lovely that have been gathered to her breast. These are the true "Treasures of the Deep." Exercises-1. Describe a Voyage round the World. Mention the chief countries you would call at. 2. Explain "Sweep o'er thy spoils;" "The battle-thunders will not break their rest;" Hold fast thy buried isles." 66 3. The Latin prefix contra or counter signifies against, in opposition to-as, contradict, to speak against; contraband, against the law; countermand, tc order against, to recall a command; counteract, to act against. Make sentences containing contradict, contraband, countermand, counteract. NOBLE REVENGE. 1. A young officer (in what army no matter) had so far forgotten himself, in a moment of irritation, as to strike a private soldier, full of personal dignity (as sometimes happens in all ranks), and distinguished for his courage. The inexorable laws of military discipline forbade to the injured soldier any redress, -he could look for no retaliation by acts. Words only were at his command, and in a tumult of indignation, as he turned away, the soldier said to his officer that he would "make him repent it!" 2. This, wearing the shape of a menace, naturally rekindled the officer's anger, and intercepted any disposition which might be rising within him toward a sentiment of remorse; and thus the irritation between the two young men grew hotter than before. 3. Some weeks after this, a partial action took place with the enemy. Suppose yourself a spectator, and looking down into a valley occupied by the two armies. They are facing each other, you see, in martial array. But it is no more than a skirmish |