barking of a dog, or, at any rate, the indistinct hum of civilized life. Here not only man is absent, but the voice of no animal is to be heard. The smaller ones have sought the neighborhood of human dwellings, and the larger have fled to a still greater distance; the few that remain hide in the shade. Thus all is motionless, all is silent beneath the leafy arch. It seems as if the Creator had for a moment withdrawn His countenance, and all nature had become paralyzed.

9. This was not the only time that we noticed the resemblance of the forest to the ocean. In each case the idea of immensity besets you. The succession of similar scenes, their continual monotony, overpowers the imagination. Perhaps even the sensation of loneliness and desolation, which oppressed us in the middle of the Atlantic, was felt by us still more strongly and acutely in the deserts of the New World.

10. At sea the voyager sees the horizon to which he is steering. He sees the sky. His view is bounded only by the powers of the human eye. But what is there to indicate a path across the leafy ocean? In vain you may climb the lofty trees; others still higher will surround you. In vain you climb a hill; everywhere the forest follows you, the forest which extends before you to the Arctic Pole and to the Pacific Ocean. You may travel thousands of miles beneath its shade, and, though always advancing, never appear to stir from the same spot.

O, NEVER despair! for our hopes, oftentime,
Spring swiftly, as flowers in some tropical clime,
Where the spot that was barren and scentless at night
Is blooming and fragrant at morning's first light!
The mariner marks, when the tempest rings loud,
That the rainbow is brighter the darker the cloud:
Then, up! up! - never despair!

Delivery. The style is narrative, but requires a brisk, gay movement, which in the seventh and eighth stanzas should quicken into an expression of hurry, bustle, and excitement. Lochinvar's cry, "She is won," &c., should be given with loud force. It will require considerable practice in order to impart to the delivery its full effect.

See in Index, Galliard, Lochinvar, scar, Solway, SCOTT

I.

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none,

O, YOUNG Lochinvar is come out of the West,-
Through all the wide Border his steed was the best!
And save his good broadsword he weapons had
He rode alí unarmed and ne rode all alone.
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,
There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.

II.

He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone,
He swam the Eske river where ford there was none;

But ere he alighted at Netherby gate,

The bride had consented, the gallant came late:
For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war,
Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.

III.

So boldly he entered the Netherby hall,

'Mong bridesmen, and kinsmen, and brothers, and all;
Then spoke the bride's father, his hand on his sword
(For the poor craven bridegroom said never a word),
"O, come ye in peace here, or come ye in war,
Or to dance at our bridal, young Lord Lochinvar ?"

IV.

you

denied ;

"I long wooed your daughter, my suit
Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide;
And now am I come, with this lost love of mine,
To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine.

There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far,
That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar."

V.

The bride kissed the goblet; the knight took it up,
He quaffed off the wine, and he threw down the cup.
She looked down to blush, and she looked up to sigh,
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
He took her soft hand, ere her mother could bar, -
"Now tread we a measure!" said young Lochinvar.

VI.

So stately his form, and so lovely her face,
That never a hall such a galliard did grace;

While her mother did fret, and her father did fume,
And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume;
And the bride-maidens whispered, ""T were better, by far,
To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar."

VII.

One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear,

When they reached the hall-door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung,

So light to the saddle before her he sprung!

"She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scar; They'll have fleet steeds that follow," quoth young Lochinvar.

VIII.

There was mounting 'mong Græmes of the Netherby clan; Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they ran: There was racing and chasing on Cannobie Lee,

But the lost bride of Netherby ne'er did they see.

So daring in love, and so dauntless in war,

Have ye e'er heard of gallant like young Lochinvar ? *

The ballad of Lochinvar, says Scott, is in a very slight degree founded on a ballad called "Katharine Janfarie," which may be found in the "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border."

XCIX. ONE NATION, ONE DESTINY.

DONNELLY.

The following eloquent remarks by Mr. Donnelly of Minnesota are from a speech delivered in the U. S. House of Representatives, May, 1864, on the bill to provide republican governments for the subverted States.

See in Index, COMBATANT, DIET, DYNASTY, HOVEL, PLOW or PLOUGH, SOVEREIGN, NUBIA, DONNELLY.

Delivery. For most of the passages a bold middle pitch, with orotund quality, expressive pauses, and occasionally loud force, will be appropriate.

1. LET no man think that his poverty or obscurity will screen him from the results of an unwise adjustment of our present troubles. Those results will be as universal and as inevitable as death itself; they will follow the laborer to his hovel; they will track him as he flies out into the pathless wilderness. What, then, will insure the safety of the nation? There is but one answer: the prevention of that state of things out of which the rebellion arose. I need not stop to discuss the right of the nation to take all measures necessary for its own existence. Who shall assume that among its very safeguards may be found the instrument of its assassination?

2. The American people are determined to be one nation, one absolute, supreme, irresistible nation; not, in the words of Washington, as applied to the Confederation, "one nation to-day, and thirteen to-morrow"; not a Polish Diet, with as many vetoes as members; not a mere rope of sand, but one nation, for good and ill, now and forever, ONE NATION. The absolute power which rests somewhere shall rest in the hands of this Government. It matters nothing in what way the nation arose; whether from its creative abundance it gave birth to the States, or whether it grew from a congelation of the States. Possessing existence and being sovereign, it has a right to all things necessary to a continuance of its life and sovereignty.

3. We who come, Mr. Speaker, from the far West,

have not that deep and ingrained veneration for State power which is to be found among the inhabitants of some of the older States. We have found that State lines, State names, State organizations, are in most cases the veriest creatures of accident. To us there is no savor of antiquity about them. Our people move into a region of country and make the State. We feel ourselves to be offshoots of the nation. We look to the nation for protection.

4. We need erect no bulwark of State sovereignty, behind which to shelter ourselves from the gifts which that nation so generously and bountifully showers upon us; and when the order of nature is reversed, and she calls to us in her extremity for help and protection, the farmer will be found leaving his plow in the furrow, and the woodman the tree half felled in the forest, to fly to the assistance of our common parent. Part of a mighty nation, we feel that our fame and our greatness reach to the uttermost ends of the earth, over all the seas, and through all the continents. Citizens of States, we are lost and buried from the gaze of mankind, the tributary Nubias of those governments which control the mouth of our Nile; without commerce, without a navy, without a flag; the merest insignificant accidents!

5. And now, Mr. Speaker, so surely as the eye of the All-Just is upon us, there is no safety for this nation while a spark of vitality remains in the institution of Slavery. Let us read history, and gather from it, as Lord Bolingbroke advises us, "not heat, but light." What have caused the most continuous and persistent wars? The answer is, the attempts of dethroned dynasties to regain power. Slavery, with its hundred thousand autocrats, may come again to beg for it place and power, just as the old nobility came back after the revolution of France. Yet Slavery will have cost the nation its full capacity of suffering.

6. It is said that we propose to oppress the people of