Nor will I dreary rosemarye, With her cheeks of tender red. 3. The lily is all in white, like a saint, And the daisy's cheek is tipped with a blush, Jasmine is sweet and has many loves, TH Dys pěp'tie, having reference to a disordered stomach. Mag'a zine', a store-house,— particularly for powder, arms, and the like. Serōll, a roll of paper or parch ment. Tyr'i an, purple. Brakes, the handles by which pumps are worked. HE Comet! He is on his way, The whizzing planets shrink before Ah, well may royal orbs burn blue, Ten million cubic miles of head, 2. On, on by whistling spheres of light, He turns not to the left nor right, Where darkness might be bottled up 3. And what would happen to the land, If in the bearded devil's path Our earth should chance to be? 4. I saw the tutor take his tube I saw a fort,--the soldiers all Were armed with goggles green; Bang went the magazine! 5. I saw a poet dip a scroll Each moment in a tub, I read upon the warping back, He could not see his verses burn, To wet them as they dried. 6. I saw the scalding pitch roll down They answered not, but all the while 7. I saw a roasting pullet sit I saw a cripple scorch his hand I saw nine geese upon the wing 8. I saw the ox that browsed the grass The herbage in his shrinking jaws I saw huge fishes, boiled to rags, The thoughts of supper crossed my soul,- 9. Strange sights! strange sounds! O fearful dream! Its memory haunts me still, The steaming sea, the crimson glare, Stranger! if through thy reeling brain Spare, spare, O spare thine evening meal, O. W. HOLMES. LESSON XLI. LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. Press, as here used, the publica- | Boun'te oŭs, free; generous. tions that issue from the print- A bound'ing, plentiful. ded to. Af'flu ents, small streams flow ing into rivers, lakes, and the like. In ĕv'i ta ble, not to be avoided or resisted. Ġēn ́ius, talent; great mental superiority. T THE liberty of the Press is the highest safeguard to all free government. Ours could not exist without it. It is like a great, exulting and abounding river. It is fed by the dews of heaven, which distill their sweetest drops to form it. It gushes from the rill, as it breaks from the deep caverns of the earth. 2. It is augmented by a thousand affluents, that dash from the mountain top, to separate again into a thousand bounteous and irrigating streams around. On its broad bosom it bears a thousand barks. There genius spreads its purpling sail. There poetry dips its silver oar. There art, invention, discovery, science, morality and religion, may safely and securely float. It is a genial, 3. It wanders through every land. cordial source of thought and inspiration, wherever it touches, whatever it surrounds. Upon its borders, there grows every flower of grace, and every fruit of truth. 4. Sir, I am not here to deny that that river sometimes overflows its bounds. I am not here to deny that that stream sometimes becomes a dangerous torrent, and destroys towns and cities upon its bank. But I am here to say that, without it, civilization, humanity, government, all that makes society itself, would disappear, and the world would return to its ancient barbarism. 5. We will not risk these consequences, even for slavery; we will not risk these consequences, even for union; we will not risk these consequences to avoid that civil war with which you threaten us;--that war which you announce as deadly, and which you declare to be inevitable. E. D. BAKER. PLEASURES. But pleasures are like poppies spread, That flit ere you can point their place; |