16. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

17. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

18. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

19. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

20. The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

21. Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

22. So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Psalms XXIV. and XC.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. Compare these passages with Psalms CIV., XXIII., XIX. (See LXXXIX., II., CIII.)

II. In-iq'-ui-ties, strength, de çêit'-ful-ly, dōorş.

III. The forms thereof, therein, thereto, etc., are not used so much now as they were when the Bible was translated. What other words in this piece characteristic of "solemn style"?

IV. Destruction, "watch in the night," withereth.

V. Explain the sense in which "generation" is used (6).

XXII. THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB.

1. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his coborts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

2. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath flown, That nost on the morrow lay withered and strown.

3. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and forever grew still!

4. And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide,

But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride;
And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf,
And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf.

5. And there lay the rider distorted and pale,

With the dew on his brow and the rust on his mail;
And the tents were all silent, the banners alone,
The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.

6. And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail,
And their idols are broke in the temple of Baal;
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!

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Lord Byron.

Assyria.)-Gal

FOR PREPARATION.-I. Where was Assyria? (Ashur: ilee? Who were the "widows of Ashur"?-Baal ?-the Gentile ?

2 Kings xix. 35 for the biblical account of this incident.

II. Heaved, nos'-tril, băn'-ners, mor' row, for'-est, fõe.

Read

III. "Idols are broke" (broken); unsmote (un and smote for smitten); strown (and strewn). Separate the lines of the 1st stanza into feet, and mark the accented syllables. (See XC., Poetic Reading, III. and IV.) With what do you begin a sentence or line of poetry, the name of a person or of an object personified, the name of God, the name of a particular place, the name given to any special individual animal or thing?

sheen, "purple and gold" (who wore purple?). serve anything in the rhythm of the first line that reminds nent of a wild beast as it bounds toward its prey? What sted in the 2d stanza ?-in the 4th (nostrils wide, but no the order of description: (1st stanza) Glorious onset of (2d) Their summer becomes autumn. (3d) Sleep turned angel. (4th) The horses. (5th) The riders. (6th) The king down of their religion-Baal. The progress of the om the vague statement to the vivid picture with all its the brute to the human; and finally it ends in the inlations of the family (widows) and religion.

-HOW TO RENDER NOBLE IDEAS.

eas as are represented by the words great and ble, heroic, grand, sublime, glorious, magnifi, royal, kingly, manly, womanly, reverential, ly, godlike, etc., are included in this class. Y" and "VOLUME" of voice are essential the finer work of emotional expression.

as here used, refers to the kind of tone, as "aspirated." When all the breath exhaled vowel sound is vocalized, the tone is "pure" When only a part of the breath thus used is he tone is "aspirated" in quality.

ALITY, like smooth stress of voice, is pleasing, pre naturally expresses what is pleasing in as joyous and noble ideas.

ED QUALITY, like abrupt stress of voice, is disnd so as naturally expresses what is disagreeble in spirit.

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The chief characteristic in the vocal expression of this noble spirit is "full volume" and "long quantity" on the open emphatic vowels, and "smooth," swelling The "force" varies from "mod(median) "stress." erate" to "loud," and the "time" from "moderate" to "slow." The "slide" is "long," as in the utterance of earnest ideas, and the quality "pure.”

EXAMPLE.

"And had he not high honor?—
The hillside for his pall;

To lie in state while angels wait,

With stars for tapers tall;

And the dark rock pines, like tossing plumes,

Over his bier to wave;

And God's own hand, in that lonely land,
To lay him in the grave.”

(From "The Burial of Moses," by Mrs. Alexander.)

Analysis. Keep in mind that the poet is describing the burial of "Moses," and that whatever is common to all burials of the great can not be characteristic of this special burial, and so can not be emphatic; while the points of difference between this and other great burials do give it a distinct individuality, and therefore are emphatic.

High," as some"And had he not high honor?" thing greater than the customary honors, is a distinctive, emphatic idea. The writer does not ask in doubt, but in confident assurance of the fact; this is, therefore, a positive appeal, and should be read with the falling slide.

To have [something] "for his pall"; "to lie in state while [mortals] wait"; "with tapers tall"; "like toss

over his bier to wave"; "and [some kind] lonely land, to lay him in the grave";common ideas, which do not distinguish this ses from the burials of other great men, and phatic.

HILL' side for his pall," in place of the ordig, while "ANGELS" (not mortals) wait, with tapers, and "dark rock pines" for tossing "GOD's own hand"-these are the great eas which characterize this particular burial ish it from all others, and are therefore most

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7, in a general honest thought
mmon good to all, made one of them.
was GENTLE; and the elements

ed in him, that Nature might stand up,
y to all the world, This was a MAN!""
Mark Antony on the death of Brutus, in "Julius Caesar," by

ns.-Read the first example according to the give any reasons you can for the marking in example. Observe the use of "gentle" in its sense of noble; as in "Henry V.," speaking of who should fight in the battle of Agincourt: