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The Turkman lay beside the river;

The wind played loose through bow and quiver; The charger on the bank fed free;

The shield hung glittering from the tree;

The trumpet, shawm, and atabal,

Were hid from dew by cloak and pall:
For long and weary was the way
The hordes had marched that burning day.

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'DEATH TO THE TURK!' up rose the yell,

On rolled the charge,

a thunder peal!

The Tartar arrows fell like rain,

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They clanked on helm, on mail, and chain:.

In blood,

in hate,

in death, were twined

Savage and Greek, mad, bleeding, blind; And still on flank, on front, and rear,

Raged, Constantine! thy thirstiest spear.

Brassy and pale,

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a type of doom,

Labored the moon through deepening gloom!
Down plunged her orb:-'t was pitchy night!
Now, Turkman, turn thy reins for flight!

On rushed their thousands through the dark;
But in the camp a ruddy spark,

Like an uncertain meteor reeled;

Thy hand, brave king, that firebrand wheeled!

Wild burst the burning element

O'er man and courser, flag and tent!
And, through the blaze the Greek outsprang,
Like tigers, bloody, foot and fang!
With dagger's stab and falchion's sweep,
Delving the stunned and staggering heap,-
Till lay the slave by chief and khan,
And all was gone that once was man.

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A wailing on the Euxine shore
Her chivalry shall ride no more!
There's wailing on thy hills, Altai!
For chiefs, the Grecian vulture's
But, Bosphorus! thy silver wave
Hears shouts for the returning brave,·
The highest of her kingly line,-
For there comes glorious CONSTANTINE !

EXERCISE CXIII.

VALUE OF EDUCATION. - Horace Mann.

Creation seems to have been projected upon the plan of increasing the quantity, in the ratio of the intrinsic value. Emphatically is this plan manifested, when we come to that part of creation, we call ourselves. Enough of the materials of worldly good have been created to answer this great principle, that, up to the point of competence, up to the point of independence and self-respect, few things are more valuable than property; beyond that point, few things are less.

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Hence it is, that all acquisitions of property, beyond that point, considered and used as mere property, -confer an inferior sort of pleasure, in inferior quantities. However rich a man may be, a certain number of thicknesses of woollens or of silks, is all he can comfortably wear. Give him a dozen

palaces, he can live in but one, at a time. Though the commander be worth the whole regiment, or ship's company, he can have the animal pleasure of eating only his own rations; and any other animal eats, with as much relish as he. Hence the wealthiest, with all their wealth, are driven back to a cultivated mind, to beneficent uses and appropriations; and it is then, and then only, that a glorious vista of happines opens out into immensity and immortality.

Education, then, is to show to our youth, in early life, this broad line of demarcation between the value of those things which can be owned and enjoyed by but one, and those which can be owned and enjoyed by all. If I own a ship, a house, a farm, or a mass of the metals called precious, my right to them is, in its nature, sole and exclusive. No other man has a right to trade with my ship, to occupy my house, to gather my harvests, or to appropriate my treasures to his use. They are mine, and are incapable, both of a sole and of a joint possession. But not so of the treasures of knowledge, which it is the duty of education to diffuse. The same truth may enrich and ennoble all intelligences at once. Infinite diffusion subtracts nothing from depth, None are made poor because others are made rich.

In this part of the Divine economy, the privilege of primogeniture attaches to all; and every son and daughter of Adam is heir to an infinite patrimony. If I own an exquisite picture or statue, it is mine, exclusively. Even though publicly exhibited, but few could be charmed by its beauties at the same time. It is incapable of bestowing a pleasure, simultaneous and universal.

But not so of the beauty of a moral sentiment; not so of the glow of sublime emotions; not so of the feelings of conscious purity and rectitude. These may shed rapture upon all, without deprivation of any; be imparted, and still possessed; transferred to millions, yet never surrendered; carried out of the world, and yet left in it. These may imparadise mankind, and undiluted, unattenuated, be sent round the whole orb of being.

Let education, then, teach children this great truth, written on the front of the universe, that God has so constituted this world, into which he has sent them, that whatever is really and truly valuable may be possessed by all, and possessed in exhaustless abundance.

EXERCISE CXIV.

RECEPTION OF A GOVERNOR. -W. Irving.

It may readily be imagined how much General Von Poffenburgh was flattered by a visit from so august a personage as Governor Risingh: his only embarrassment was, how he should receive him in such a manner as to appear to the greatest advantage, and make the most advantageous impression. The main guard were ordered immediately to turn out; and the arms and regimentals, (of which the garrison possessed full half a dozen suits,) were equally distributed among the soldiers.

One tall, lank fellow, appeared in a coat intended for a small man, the skirts of which reached a little below his waist; the buttons were between his shoulders, and the sleeves half-way to his wrists; so that his hands looked like a couple of huge spades; and the coat not being large enough to meet in front, was linked together by loops, made of a pair of red worsted garters. Another had an old cocked hat stuck on the back of his head, and decorated with a bunch of hen's feathers; a third had a pair of rusty gaiters hanging about his heels; while a fourth, who was a short, duck-legged, little Trojan, was equipped in a huge pair of general's castoff smalls, which he held up with one hand, while he grasped his firelock with the other. The rest were accoutred in a similar style, excepting three graceless ragamuffins, who had no shirts, and but a pair and a half of small-clothes between them, wherefore they were sent to the black-hole, to keep them out of view.

There is nothing in which the talents of a prudent commander are more completely testified, than in thus setting matters off to the greatest advantage. His men being thus gallantly arrayed, those who lacked muskets shouldering spades and pickaxes, General Von Poffenburgh first took a sturdy draught of foaming ale, which, like the magnanimous More of More-hall,* was his invariable practice upon all

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-' as soon as he rose,

To make him strong and mighty,

He drank by the tale, six pots of ale,
And a quart of aqua vitæ.'

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occasions; which done, he put himself at their head, ordered the pine-planks, which served as a drawbridge, to be laid down, and issued forth from his castle, like a mighty giant, just refreshed with wine.

But when the two heroes met, then began a scene of warlike parade and chivalric courtesy, that beggars all description. Risingh, who was a shrewd, cunning politician, and had grown grey much before his time, in consequence of his craftiness, saw, at once, the ruling passion of the great Von Poffenburgh, and humoured him in all his valorous fantasies.

Their detachments were accordingly drawn up in front of each other: they carried arms, and they presented arms; they gave the standing salute; they rolled their drums, they flourished their fifes, and they waved their colors; they faced to the left, and they faced to the right, and they faced to the right about; they wheeled forward, and they wheeled backward, and they wheeled into échellon; they marched and they counter-marched, by grand divisions, by single divisions, and by subdivisions, by platoons, by sections, and by files, in quick time, in slow time, and in no time at all; for, having gone through all the evolutions of two great armies, including the eighteen manœuvres of Dundas; having exhausted all that they could recollect or imagine of military tactics, including sundry strange and irregular evolutions, the like of which were never seen before or since, excepting among certain of our newly-raised militia; the two great captains and their respective troops came, at length, to a dead halt, completely exhausted by the toils of war.

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Never did two valiant train-band captains, or two buskined theatric heroes, in the renowned tragedies of Pizarro, Tom Thumb, or any other heroical and fighting tragedy, marshal their gallows-looking, duck-legged, heavy-heeled myrmidons, with more glory and self-admiration.

RULE FOR THE READING OF HUMOROUS DESCRIPTIONS.

Passages of HUMOROUS DESCRIPTION, should be read with FULL LIVELINESS of feeling, GREAT BREADTH of tone, and PLAYFUL EXAGGERATION of effect.

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