"O God! it made me quake to see "My head was like an ardent coal, My wretched, wretched soul, I knew, A dozen times I groaned; the dead "And now from forth the frowning sky, I heard a voice-the awful voice "I took the dreary body up Is nothing but a dream! "Down went the corpse with a hollow plunge, And vanished in the pool; Anon, I cleansed my bloody hands, And washed my forehead cool, And sat among the urchins young "O! heaven, to think of their white souls, And mine so black and grim! I could not share in childish prayer, Nor join in evening hymn; Like a devil of the pit I seemed, 'Mid holy cherubim! "And peace went with them, one and all, And drew my midnight curtains round, "All night I lay in agony, From weary chime to chime, A mighty yearning like the first "One stern tyrannic thought that made All other thoughts its slave; Stronger and stronger every pulse Did that temptation crave Still urging me to go and see "Heavily I rose up as soon And I saw the dead in the river bed, "Merrily rose the lark, and shook But I never marked its morning flight, For I was stooping once again Under the horrid thing. "With breathless speed, like a soul in chase, I took him up and rau There was no time to dig a grave Before the day began; In a lonesome wood, with heaps of leaves, I hid the murdered man. "Then down I cast me on my face, For I knew my secret then was one "So wills the fierce avenging sprite, "O God, that horrid, horrid dream The human life I take; And my red right hand grows raging hot, Like Cranmer's at the stake. "And still no peace for the restless clay The horrid thing pursues my soul— The fearful boy looked up, and saw That very night, while gentle sleep Two stern-faced men set out from Lynn, HOOD. HOME AND CLASS WORK. Learn the spellings at the top of the page, and write sentences containing these words. Four merchants were sharers in a sum of a thousand pieces of gold, which they had mixed together, and put into one purse, and they went with it to purchase merchandise, and, finding in their way a beautiful garden, they entered it, and left the purse with a woman who was the keeper of that garden. Having entered, they diverted themselves in a tract of the garden, and ate and drank, and were happy; and one of them said, "I have with me some perfume. Come, let us wash our heads with this running water; and perfume ourselves." Another said, "We want a comb." And another said, “We will ask the keeper; perhaps she hath with her a comb." And upon this, one of them rose and went to the keeper, and said to her, "Give me the purse.' "She replied, "When ye all present yourselves, or thy companions order me to give it thee." Now his companions were in a place where the keeper could see them, and she could hear their words. And the man said to his companions, "She is not willing to give me aught." So they said to her, "Give him." And when she heard their words, she gave him the purse; and he went forth fleeing from them. Therefore when he had wearied them by the length of his absence, they came to the keeper, and said to her, "Wherefore didst thou not give him the comb?" And she replied, "He demanded of me nothing but the purse, and I gave not to him save with your permission, and he hath departed hence and gone his way." And when they it |