The blue deep thou wingest,

And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.

"In the golden lightning

Of the sunken sun,

O'er which clouds are brightening,

Thou dost float and run,

Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

"All the earth and air

With thy voice is loud,

As, when night is bare,

From one lonely cloud

The moon rains out her beams, and heaven is overflowed.

"What thou art, we know not;

What is most like thee?

From rainbow clouds there flow not

Drops so bright to see,

As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.

"Sound of vernal showers

On the twinkling grass,
Rain-awakened flowers,

All that ever was

Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass.

"Teach us, sprite or bird,

What sweet thoughts are thine;

I have never heard

Praise of love or wine

That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.

"Better than all measures

Of delightful sound,
Better than all treasures

That in books are found,

Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!

“Teacn me half the gladness"

That thy brain must know,
Such harmonious madness

From my lips would flow,

The world should listen then, as I am listening now."

'Noble' example for pure tone,' to be given also with full median stress.

"We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden him who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and glory of his country. Let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of morning gild it, and parting day linger and play upon its summit."

6

Example of subdued beauty,' with the same pure quality,' but with slower time,' 'softer force,' and less lively meaian stress.'

"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music

Creep in our ears! soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.

"Look how the floor of heaven

Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold!
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st,

But in his motion like an angel sings;

Such harmony is in immortal souls!"

f*

Subdued and pathetic' example for pure quality,'' soft force,'' short slides,' and gentle 'median stress.'

"There's another, not a sister, in the happy days gone by,

You'd have known her by the merriment that sparkled in her

eye;

Tell her the last night of my life, (for ere the moon be risen, My body will be out of pain, my soul be out of prison,)

I dreamed I stood with her, and saw the yellow sunlight shine On the vine-clad hills of Bingen, -fair Bingen on the Rhine! I saw the blue Rhine sweep along, — I heard, or seemed to

hear,

The German songs we used to sing, in chorus sweet and clear; And down the pleasant river, and up the slanting hill,

The echoing chorus sounded, through the evening calm and

still;

And her glad blue eyes were on me as we passed with friendly talk,

Down many a path beloved of yore, and well-remembered walk; And her little hand lay lightly, confidingly in mine,

But we'll meet no more at Bingen-loved Bingen on the Rhine!"

'Subdued example' for very soft force,'' short slides,' and gentle median stress,' and the purest quality.'

"I thought to pass away before, and yet alive I am; And in the fields all round I hear the bleating of the lamb. How sadly, I remember, rose the morning of the year! To die before the snow-drop came, and now the violet's here. O sweet is the new violet, that comes beneath the skies, And sweeter is the young lamb's voice to me that cannot rise, And sweet is all the land about, and all the flowers that blow, And sweeter far is death than life to me that long to go. O look! the sun begins to rise, the heavens are in a glow; He shines upon a hundred fields, and all of them I know.

O sweet and strange it seems to me, that ere this day is done,
The voice that now is speaking may be beyond the sun
Forever and forever; all in a blessed home-
And there to wait a little while till you and Effie come-
To lie within the light of God, as I lie upon your breast-
And the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.'

'Joyous' example for pure quality' and happy median stress. "And what is so rare as a day in June?

Then, if ever, come perfect days;

Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays:
Whether we look, or whether we listen,
We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;
Every clod feels a stir of might,

An instinct within it that reaches and towers,
And, groping blindly above it for light,
Climbs to a soul in grass and flowers;

The little bird sits at his door in the sun,
Atilt like a blossom among the leaves,
And lets his illumined being o'errun
With the deluge of summer it receives."

A striking example of both qualities may be taken from the dialogue between "Old Shylock" and "Portia." The tones of Shylock's voice, to express his spite and revenge, must be marked by the most abrupt vanishing stress' and 'aspirated or impure quality;' while the beautiful sentiments of Portia demand the smoothest stress' and 'purest quality,

66 PORTIA. Do you confess the bond?

ANTONIO. I do.

POR. Then must the Jew be merciful

SHYLOCK. On what compulsion must I? Tell me that

POR. The quality of mercy is not strained;

It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven

Upon the place beneath; it is twice bless'd;

It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes:
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown:
It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,

It is an attribute to God himself,

And earthly power doth then shew likest God's,
When mercy seasons justice."

Having thus treated of, and illustrated with various kinds of pieces, each one of the elements of elocution, separately, let us now finish our work by learning how all these separate elements unite together and blend in the natural expression of each kind' of sentiment.

Unemotional' pieces should have 'moderate' 'standard force' and 'time' and 'slides' and 'volume,' 'middle pitch,' 'smooth stress,' and 'pure quality' of voice.

Unemotional Example.

"There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature, to have a strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and a friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He, who plants an oak, looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing can be less selfish than this. He cannot expect to sit in its shade and enjoy its shelter; but he exults in the idea that the acorn which he has buried in the earth shall grow up into a lofty pile, and shall keep on flourishing and increasing and benefiting mankind, long after he shall have ceased to tread his paternal fields."

'Bold' pieces should have loud' standard force,' 'long slides,' moderate time,' with long quantity on the emphatic syllables, middle pitch,' abrupt stress,' and slightly 'aspirated quality.'

66

Bold Example.

Who, then, caused the strife

That crimsoned Naseby's field, and Marston's Moor?

so the Stuart fell!