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9. Tears are streaming down those cheeks, bronzed' by burning suns, and furrowed by sea-foam and tempest; and that voice, whose stern tones had risen above the roar of battle, and roused the seaman from his slumbers like the trump" of doom, grows all tremulous with emotion, as he cries, "God be merciful to me a sinner."

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1. I AM coming, little maiden,

With the pleasant sunshine laden ;
With the honey for the bee;

With the blossom for the tree;

With the flower and with the leaf:
Till I come the time is brief.'

2. I am coming, I am coming!
Hark! the little bee is humming;
See! the lark is soaring high
In the bright and sunny sky,

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And the gnats are on the wing:
Little maiden, now is Spring!

3. See the yellow catkins' cover
All the slender willows over;
And on mossy banks so green
Starlike primroses' are seen;
Every little stream is bright;
All the orchard trees are white.

4. Hark! the little lambs are bleating,
And the cawing rooks are meeting
In the elms a noisy crowd;
And all birds are singing loud;
And the first white butterfly
In the sun goes flitting by.

5. Turn thy eyes to earth and heaven:
God for thee the Spring has given,
Taught the birds their melodies,
Clothed the earth, and cleared the skies,
For thy pleasure or thy food-

Pour thy soul in gratitude!"

1 BRIEF. Short, not long.

CATKIN.

A sort of flower like a

3 PRIMROSE

A low plant, flowering' early in the spring.

spike, consisting of scales overlap-4 CAWING. Making a noise as if re

ping each other, and hanging from the hazel, birch, willow, &c.

peating the syllable caw.
5 GRATITUDE, Thankfulness.

OUR best friends are they who tell us of our faults, and teach us how to amend them.

Never think that you have done well enough while you feel that you can still do better.

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1. Down in my solitude' under the snow,
Where nothing cheering can reach me,-
Here, without light to see how to grow,
I'll trust to nature to teach me.

2. I will not despair, nor be idle, nor frown,
Locked in so gloomy a dwelling;

My leaves shall run up, and my roots shall run down,
While the bud in my bosom is swelling.

3. Soon as the frost will get out of my bed,
From this cold dungeon' to free me,

I will peer up with my bright little head;
All will be joyful to see me.

4. Then from my heart will young petals diverge,
As the rays of the sun from their focus*;
I from the darkness of earth will emerge,
A happy and beautiful crocus!

5. Gayly arrayed in my yellow and green,
When to their view I have risen,
Will they not wonder how one so serene
Came from so dismal' a prison?

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6. Many, perhaps, from so simple a flower
This little lesson

borrow may

Patient to-day, through its gloomiest hour,
We come out the brighter to-morrow.

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1. A SOFT answer turneth away wrath; but grievous' words stir up anger.

2. Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

3. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.

4. It is an honor for a man to cease from strife; but every fool will be meddling.

5. Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

6. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.

7. Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.

8. Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

9. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

1 GRIEVOUS. Causing grief, oppressive, vexatious, irritating.

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1. MANY years ago there lived in Scotland a nobleman whose name was Lord Melville. In Europe there is a class of persons called noblemen, who have titles of honor which were bestowed upon them, or some distinguished' ancestor of theirs.

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