And manners, climates, councils, governments Yet all experience is an arch1 wherethrough How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life Little remains; but every hour is saved 1 is an arch, etc. Observe this fine metaphor. 2 that eternal silence, death. 8 gray spirit. Explain. 4 by slow prudence, etc., is explanatory of "this labor." 5 centered... sphere, confined to, devoted to. In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail; There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled and wrought and thought with me, That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads, you and I are old. Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks; The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, "Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down; It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are: One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. 3.- BREAK, BREAK, BREAK! BREAK, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, O sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven1 under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. [From In Memoriam. See introductory sketch.] RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, 1 haven. Give a synonym. 2 is dying, etc. Explain. Ring out the old, ring in the new; Ring out the grief that saps the mind 2 Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring out the want, the care, the sin, 3 Ring out false pride in place and blood, Ring out old shapes of foul disease; 1 him. Note the personification. 2 saps the mind. What is the figure? 8 minstrel, bard. 4 thousand years of peace, the millennium. Ring in the valiant man and free, 5. CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE. [The following spirited lyric commemorates a famous exploit of a portion of the British army during one of the most famous actions of the Crimean War. It will be noted that the galloping dactylic movement of the verse is specially suited to the description of the action.] HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, |