What you would hear from me of good or evil. 15 And sentence from the court! President. Marino Faliero,* doge of Venice, And sometime general of the fleet and army, 20 Intrusted by the state with high employments, 25 Until this trial,-the decree is death! The place wherein as doge thou shouldst be painted, To be left vacant, with a death-black veil Flung over these dim words engraved beneath, 30"This place is of Marino Faliero, Decapitated for his crimes." Doge. What crimes? Were it not better to record the facts, 35 Or at least learn whence the crimes arose ? Pres. Time must reply to that. Our sons will judge Their fathers' judgment, which I now pronounce. 40 As doge, clad in the ducal robes and cap, Thou shalt be led hence to the Giant's Staircase, * Pronounced Măreeno Fălecayro. 5 Upon the spot where it was first assumed, Thy head shall be struck off; and Heaven have mercy Doge. Is this the sentence? President. It is. Doge. I can endure it. And the time? Pres. Must be immediate. Make thy peace with God,— Within an hour thou must be in His presence! Doge. I am there already; and my blood will rise 10 Before the souls of those who shed it! LESSON CXLIX. THE RICH MAN'S SON, AND THE POOR MAN'S SON.-J. R. LOWELL. The rich man's son inherits lands, One would not care to hold in fee: The rich man's son inherits cares; One would not care to hold in fee. What does the poor man's son inherit? A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee. What does the poor man's son inherit ?— 5 10 15 20 25 What does the poor man's son inherit ?— To make the outcast bless his door: A king might wish to hold in fee. Oh! rich man's son, there is a toil But only whitens, soft, white hands: Worth being rich to hold in fee. Oh! poor man's son, scorn not thy state;- Worth being poor to hold in fee. Both heirs to some six feet of sod, Are equal in the earth at last; Both children of the same dear GOD; Well worth a life to hold in fee. LESSON CL.-NEW ENGLAND'S DEAD.-ISAAC M’LELLAN, JR. "I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is; behold her, and judge for yourselves.-There is her history. The world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever. The bones of her sons, falling in the great struggle for independence, now lie mingled with the soil of every state, from New England to Georgia; and there they will remain forever."-Webster's Speech. NEW ENGLAND'S DEAD! New England's dead! On every field of strife made red By bloody victory. 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 Each valley, where the battle poured Beheld the brave New England sword The land is holy where they fought, For by their blood that land was bought, Then glory to that valiant band, The honored saviors of the land! Oh! few and weak their numbers were, A handful of brave men; But to their God they gave their And rushed to battle then. prayer, The God of battles heard their cry, They left the ploughshare in the mould, To right those wrongs, come weal, come woe, And where are ye, O fearless men? I call the hills reply again That ye have passed away; That on old Bunker's lonely height, The bugle's wild and warlike blast An army now might thunder past, The starry flag, 'neath which they fought, In many a bloody day, From their old graves shall rouse them not, LESSON CLI. THE GRAVES OF THE PATRIOTS.-J. G. PERCIVAL. Here rest the great and good,-here they repose They take their sleep together, while the year It is round them; and the joy That smiles on all they fought for, and the wealth 15 That clothes the land they rescued,-these, though mute As feeling ever is when deepest,-these Are monuments more lasting, than the fanes Touch not the ancient elms, that bend their shade Of serious liberty. No factious voice To the astonished gaze of awe-struck kings, |