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Peace with you, brethren; my inducement hither
Was not at present here to find my son,

By order of the lords new parted hence
To come and play before them at their feast.
I heard all as I came; the city rings

And numbers thither flock.

to descry the distant foe, Where lodged, or whither fled;

To teach thee that God attributes to place
No sanctity, if none be thither brought
By men who there frequent or therein dwell.

-Come hither in thy hour of strength:

Come, weak as is a breaking wave!
Here stretch thy body at full length;
Or build thy house upon this grave.

S. A., 1445.

P. L., vi. 531.

P. L., xỉ. 837

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WORDSWORTH.
Fluttering,

'A Poet's Epitaph

Here did it enter; there, on hasty wing
Flies out, and passes on from cold to cold;
But whence it came we know not, nor behold
Whither it goes.

There let me see thee sink into a mood

Of gentler thought, protracted till thine eye
Be calm as water when the winds are gone,
And no one can tell whither.

the clouds,

The mist, the shadows, light of golden suns,
Motions of moonlight, all come thither-touch,
And have an answer-thither come, and shape
A language not unwelcome to sick hearts
And idle spirits :-there the sun himself,
At the calm close of summer's longest day,
Rests his substantial orb; between those heights
And on the top of either pinnacle,

Eccles. Sonnets."

'To Lycoris!

More keenly than elsewhere in night's blue vault,
Sparkle the stars, as of their station proud.

Hence in a season of calm weather,
Though inland far we be,

Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither,

Can in a moment travel thither,

And see the children sport upon the shore,

And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.

Exercise.

The Excursion,' il

'Intimations of Immortality."]

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EXERCISES ON ENGLISH SYNONYMES.

I shall go to Brighton next week. Shall you be "That lord advanced to Winchester,

him two regiments more of foot."

I visited last autumn the place

your acquaintance.

this summer? Sir John Berkley brough

I first had the pleasure of making

"Who brought me

Will bring me hence; no other guide I seek."

Pompey followed Cæsar into Thessaly,

the latter had already

taken his position in the neighbourhood of Pharsalus, and

armies met each other.

Cleopatra returned to Alexandria,

Antony.

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sne was accompanied by

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