Hear ye the sounds that the winds on their pinions

Exultingly roll from the shore to the sea,

With a voice that resounds through her boundless dominions?
Has earth a clod

Its maker meant not should be trod
By man, the image of his God,
Erect and free,

Unscourged by superstition's rod,
To bow the knee?

Is not the lovely woman

I met in the adjacent hall, who, with
An air and port and eye which would have better
Beseemed this palace in its brightest days,
Though in a garb adapted to its present
Abandonment, returned my salutation,—
Is not the same your spouse?

Art thou that traitor angel, art thou he
Who first broke peace in heaven, and faith, till then
Unbroken, and in proud rebellious arms

Drew after him the third part of heaven's sons,
Conjured against the Highest; for which both thou
And they, outcast from God, are here condemned
To waste eternal days in wo and pain?

Is it a time to wrangle, when the props
And pillars of our planet seem to fail,
And Nature with a dim and sickly eye
To wait the close of all?

Canst thou, the tear just trembling on thy lids,
And while the dreadful risk foreseen forbids,
Free too, and under no constraining force,
Unless the sway of custom warp thy course,
Lay such a stake upon the losing side
Merely to gratify so blind a guide?

Shall yon exulting peak,
Whose glittering top is like a distant star,
Lie low beneath the boiling of the deep,
No more to have the morning sun break forth,
And scatter back the mists in floating folds
From its tremendous brow: no more to have
Day's broad orb drop behind its head at even;
Leaving it with a crown of many hues :
No more to be the beacon of the world

For angels to alight on, as the spot

Nearest the stars?

[Oh earth!] dost thou too sorrow for the past
Like man thy offspring; do I hear thee mourn
Thy childhood's unreturning hours, thy springs
Gone with their genial airs and melodies,
The gentle generations of thy flowers,
And thy majestic groves of olden time,
Perished with all their dwellers; dost thou wail
For that fair age of which the poets tell,
Ere the rude winds grew keen with frost, or fire
Fell with the rains, or spouted from the hills,
To blast thy greenness, while the virgin night
Was guiltless and salubrious as the day;
Or, haply, dost thou grieve for those that die:
For living things that trod awhile thy face,
The loved of thee and heaven,-and now they sleep,
Mixed with the shapeless dust on which thy herds
Trample and graze?

2. INDEFINITE INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES.

1. Close.

RULE XIII. This interrogative should be delivered either with an uninterrupted downward slide, (see Plate, Fig. 4,) or with the downward slide at the beginning, passing into a level tone of voice through the middle, and terminating with the downward slide at the end: (see Plate, Fig. 16:) when it has two or more members similarly constructed at the beginning, or either of these members has sub-members of similar construction, these members are successively delivered in the same manner, but in a slightly lower tone of voice. (See Chap. III. Modulation, Slides.)

Of the two methods spoken of in the beginning of the rule, the first is to be preferred if practicable; but when the sentence is too long for a continuous downward slide, the second must of necessity be adopted: even then the level should rather be comparative than absolute, and the voice perceptibly fall: just perceptibly, and no more.

Examples.

What citizen of our republic is not grateful in view of the contrast which our history presents!

Who ever sought honor, glory, praise or fame of any kind with the same ardor that we fly those most cruel of afflictions, ignominy, contumely, and scorn!

How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which

is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created !

Where is the man who has not his wrong tendencies to lament! Whence is it that veteran troops face an enemy with almost as little concern as they perform their exercise!

Which of those faculties or affections, which heaven can be supposed to gratify, have you cultivated and improved !

When was it that Rome attracted most strongly the admiration of mankind, and impressed the deepest sentiment of fear on the hearts of her enemies!

Who can say for how many centuries, safe in their undiscovered fastnesses, they had decked their war-chiefs with the feathers of the eagle's tail and listened to the counsels of their beloved old men !

Why did they not, in the next breath, by way of crowning the climax of their vanity, bid the magnificent fire-ball to descend from its exalted and appropriate region, and perform its splendid tour along the surface of the earth!

What rank or condition of youth is there, that has not daily and hourly opportunities of laying in supplies of knowledge and virtue, that will in every station of life be equally serviceable and ornamental to themselves and beneficial to mankind !

What time can suffice for the contemplation and worship of that glorious, immortal and eternal Being, among the works of whose stupendous creation those numberless luminaries which we may here behold spangling all the sky, may possibly appear but as a few atoms, opposed to the whole earth which we inhabit §

What eye has been permitted to see, what ear to hear, what heart to conceive, those things which God has in preparation for them that love him!

Who that has a memory to look back over the past, who that has a mind to comprehend all the present, who that has an imagination to embody the dim visions of the future, will despair f

Who does not feel, what reflecting American does not acknowledge, the incalculable advantages derived to this land out of the deep foundations of civil, intellectual and moral truth, from which we have drawn in England!

Who that has a heart to love his family, his state, the nation, the living or the unborn world, and who that has a soul that ascends in thought to the throne of God, the mansions of angels, and the habitations of the just made perfect, will despair of the literature of his country!

Who can tell how much of his good or ill success in life, how much of the favor or disregard with which he himself has been

treated, may have depended upon that skill or deficiency in grammar, of which he must have afforded certain and constant evidence!

But what to them the sculptor's art,
His funeral columns, wreaths and urns!
And what is faith, love, virtue, unessayed,
Alone, without exterior help sustained §
Why stand we gazing on the sparkling brine
With wonder, smit by its transparency,
And all enraptured with its purity f
Where shall the lover rest,

Whom the fates sever

From his true maiden's breast,,
Parted forever !

And who that walks, where men of ancient days
Have wrought with godlike arm the deeds of praise,
Feels not the spirit of the place control,

Exalt and agitate his laboring soul!

Why

Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect

God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore

Only among the crowd, and under roofs

That our frail hands have raised!

How comes it that the wondrous essence,

Which gave such vigor to those strong-nerved limbs,
Has leapt of its enclosure, and compelled

This noble workmanship of nature thus

To sink into a cold, inactive clod !

Why wouldst thou, but for some felonious end,
In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars

That Nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps
With everlasting oil, to give due light

To the misled and lonely traveller §

Who that there

Had seen those listening warrior-men,

With their swords grasped, their eyes of flame
Turned on their chief, could doubt the shame,
The indignant shame with which they thrill
To hear those shouts and yet stand still f
And who was she, in virgin prime,
And May of womanhood,

Whose roses here, unplucked by time,
In shadowy tints have stood,

While many a winter's withering blast
Hath o'er the dark cold chamber past
In which her once resplendent form
Slumbered to dust beneath the storm?

2. Compact.

RULE XIV. When both parts of a compact indefinite interrogative consist of a single member each, they are together delivered precisely like the close; (see preceding Rule ;) but when either of them contains two or more members, the series in the first, is delivered like the series of the close, and the series in the second, like the series of a loose. (See Loose Sentence below.)

Examples.

Who would ever have mentioned it, had not Cœlius impeached a certain person

What can carry less the appearance of a design to fight, than a man entangled with a cloak, shut up in a chariot, and almost fettered by a wife !

What could have been his motive for pursuing the conduct he did on that occasion, when his obligations to act differently were numerous and solemn !

What is so calculated, under the blessing of divine grace, to impress them with the importance of prayer, as the being called at stated intervals to take part in our devout supplications to God!

Why should we suspend our resistance, why should we submit to an authority like this, if we have the right and superior force on our side!

What are we to look for, when you shall be no longer hackneyed in the ways of men; when interest shall have completed the obduration of your heart; and when experience shall have improved you in all the arts of guile !

How can we but despair of ever witnessing on earth a pure and a holy generation, when even parents will utter their polluting levities in the hearing of their own children; and vice and humor and gayety, are all indiscriminately blended into our conversation and a loud laugh from the initiated and the uninitiated in profligacy, is ever ready to flatter and to regale the man who can thus prostitute his powers of entertainment

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Why recur to any presumption, for the purpose of bringing the question to a settlement, when, upon this very topic, we are favored with an authoritative message from God: when an actual embassy has come from him, and that on the express errand of