78 Strange to me now are the forms I meet When I visit the dear old town;

But the native air is pure and sweet,

And the trees that o'ershadow each well-known street,
As they balance up and down,

Are singing the beautiful song,
Are sighing and whispering still:

A boy's will is the wind's will,

And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. 79 That the Government will not work satisfactorily unless all its officers and employees are in political harmony with the ruling party is one of those superstitions which some estimable people have not been able to shake off.

80 And the calm moonlight seems to say:

81

Hast thou still the old unquiet breast,
Which neither deadens into rest,

Nor ever feels the fiery glow

That whirls the spirit from itself away?
Even in Greece

Where best the poet framed his piece,
Even in that Phoebus-guarded ground
Pausanias on his travels found

Good poems, if he look'd, more rare

(Though many) than good statues were.

82 Of this fair volume which we World do name, If we the sheets and leaves could turn with care,

Of him who it corrects and did it frame,

We clear might read the art and wisdom rare. 83 No one considers how much pain every man of taste has had to suffer before he ever inflicts any.

84 Then Denmark blest our chief

That he gave her wounds repose,
And the sounds of joy and grief
From her people wildly rose,

As death withdrew his shades from the sky.

85 And when in other climes we meet
Some isle or vale enchanting,

Where all looks flowery wild and sweet,
And naught but love is wanting,

We think how great had been our bliss
If Heaven had but assign'd us

To live and die in scenes like this,

With some we've left behind us.

86 High place is lost so easily, that when a family has been of long continuance we may be sure that it has survived by exceptional merit.

87 Lo! I uncover the land

Which I hid of old time in the West,

As the sculptor uncovers the statue

When he has wrought his best.

88 It was a very remarkable circumstance about Johnson, whom shallow observers have supposed to be ignorant of the world, that very few men had seen greater variety of characters; and none could observe them better, as was evident from the strong yet nice portraits which he often drew.

89 The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf

Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned
His visionary brow; a glow-worm lamp
It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faëryland
To struggle through dark ways; and when a damp
Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand
The Thing became a trumpet whence he blew
Soul-animating strains-alas, too few!

90 Humanity, delighting to behold

A fond reflection of her own decay,
Hath painted Winter like a traveler old,
Propped on a staff, and, through the sullen day,
In hooded mantle, limping o'er the plain,

As though his weakness were disturbed by pain. 91 The great Orders of Chivalry were international institutions whose members, having consecrated themselves

a military priesthood, had no longer any country of their own and could therefore be subject to no one save the Emperor and the Pope.

92 There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear

93

Than his who breathes, by roof and floor and wall
Pent in, a Tyrant's solitary thrall.

No one plucks the rose

Whose proffered beauty in safe shelter grows
'Mid a trim garden's summer luxuries,

With Joy like his who climbs, on hands and knees,
For some rare plant, yon Headland of St. Bees.

94 If a man who turnips cries,

Cries not when his father dies,

'Tis a proof that he would rather
Have a turnip than his father.
95 There is not wind enough to twirl

The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light and hanging so high,

On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

96 Thinkest thou not that I long to see that city to which there never has been any like nor ever shall be, which even an enemy called a city of kings?

97 Every intelligent and unprejudiced citizen, when he candidly inquires into the developments which have brought about the present state of things will understand that of the evils which have so alarmingly demoralized our political life, many, if not most, had their origin in that practice which treats the public offices as the plunder of victorious parties.

98

The silence there

By such a chain was bound,

That even the busy woodpecker

Made stiller by her sound

The inviolable quietness.

99 Now this is the law of the Muscovite, that he proves

with shot and steel,

When ye come by his isles in the smoky seas, ye must not take the seal.

100 Though dark, O God, thy course and track,

I think thou must at least have meant

That naught that lives should wholly lack
The things that are more excellent.

CHAPTER XII

DIAGRAMS

124. A Sentence may be Analyzed by representing the grammatical relations of its parts in a Diagram. The following examples will illustrate a method of Analysis by Diagram *:

1 The sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.

Note: The Subject, Predicate Verb, and Complement (if any) are written over a heavy horizontal line. The Subject and Predicate Verb are separated by a vertical line which cuts the horizontal line. The division line between the Predicate Verb and Object Complement touches the horizontal line without cutting it. Modifying words are written on slanting lines placed below the word modified. The diagram of a Phrase consists of a slanting line on which the introductory word is written, and a horizontal line for the principal words, from which lines are drawn, if necessary, to indicate modifiers within the Phrase.

The method of analysis by diagram employed in this chapter follows that developed by Messrs. Reed and Kellogg.