But from that hour of parting pain,
That bark was never heard of more!

2. In her was many a mother's joy,

And love of many a weeping fair :
For her was wafted in its sigh,

The lonely heart's unceasing prayer;
And Oh! the thousand hopes untold,
Of ardent youth that vessel bore;
Say, were they quenched in waters cold?
For she was never heard of more!

3. When on her wide and trackless path,
Of desolation doomed to flee,

Say, sank she midst the blending wrath
Of racking wind and rolling sea?
Or, where the land but mocks the eye,
Went drifting on a fatal shore?

Vain guesses all-her destiny

Is dark-she ne'er was heard of more!

4. The moon hath twelve times changed her form,
From growing orb to crescent wan;
'Mid skies of calm, and scowl of storm,
Since from her port that ship hath gone.
But ocean keeps its secret well,

And though we know that all is o'er;
No eve hath seen-no tongue can tell
Her fate-she ne'er was heard of more!

. 5. Oh, were her tale of sorrow known,
"Twere something to the broken heart!
The
of doubt would then be gone,
pangs
And Fancy's endless dreams depart:

It not be!-there is no ray, may

By which her doom we may explore; We only know she sailed away, And ne'er was heard of more!

LESSON C.

THE NEW YEAR.

1. God's vast existence ne'er decays,
Age never dims his brow;
Past, present, future, in his sight,
Are one eternal Now.

2. Man measures out his fleeting state
By motions in the skies;

And, like his own frail garment, wears
With every hour that flies.

3. Successive moments make our day,
Successive months our year;

The moment passed will ne'er return,
Though seasons like appear.

4. Still a new spring shall bless the earth, And a new harvest rise;

But the last year shall ne'er again
Revisit mortal eyes.

5. Old Time with his keen-pointed scythe, Devours the life of man;

Our periods lessen with the hour,
When being first began.

6. Each year fulfills some new events
Heaven long decreed before;
Removes unnumbered lives away,
And gives unnumbered more

7. Soon shall the appointed angel stand
O'er earth, and air, and sea,

And swear by Him who ever lives,
Time shall no longer be.

8. Then shall the league of nature cease,— The sun forsake his way,

And months and years their measure lose
In one eternal day.

LESSON CI.

THE CONSTITUTION.

1. THOSE names shall long remembered be,
Who made the declaration;
That blest by Providence they'd be
A free and happy nation.

Let each young heart be glad that hears
About our nation's glory;

And every one in infant years
Be taught the joyful story.

2. The eagle o'er our banner flew,
An emblem proud of freemen;
To guard Columbia's gallant few
Of landsmen and of seamen.
And now secure in peace we rest,
Let's join the resolution,

While still by Providence we're blest,
To guard the Constitution.

PATRIOTIC SONG.

Allegro

L. Mason.

1. Before all lands in east or west, I love my na- tive

land the best, With God's best gifts 'tis teeming; No gold nor

jewels here are found, Yet men of noble souls abound, And

eyes of joy are gleaming, And eyes of joy are gleam-ing.

1. BEFORE all lands in east or west,
I love my native land the best,

With God's best gifts 'tis teeming;
No gold nor jewels here are found,
Yet men of noble souls abound,
And eyes of joy are gleaming,
And eyes, &c.

2. Before all tongues in east or west,
I love my native tongue the best,
Though not so smoothly spoken;
Nor woven with Italian art;

Yet when it speaks from heart to heart,
The word is never broken.
The word, &c.

3. Before all people east or west,
I love my countrymen the best,
A race of noble spirit;

A sober mind, a generous heart,
To virtue trained, yet free from art,
They from their sires inherit.
They from, &c.

4. To all the word I give my hand,
My heart I give my native land ;—
I seek her good, her glory;

I honor every nation's name,
Respect their fortune and their fame,
But I love the land that bore me.
But I love, &c.