And cinnamon and amomum ; And perfumes, and myrrh, and incense; And wine and oil; 50. And fine flour and wheat; And cattle and sheep; And horses, and chariots, and slaves; And the souls of men: And the autumnal fruits of thy soul's desire are gone from thee; 55. And all delicacies and splendors have vanished from thee; And thou shalt never find them any more! The merchants of these things, who were enriched by her, 60. "Woe! Woe! the great city! She, who was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, wealth!" And every shipmaster, and every supercargo, 65. And mariners, and all who labor on the sea, Stood afar off, and cried aloud, When they saw the smoke of her burning; saying, And they cast dust upon their heads, 70. And cried aloud, weeping and mourning; saying, Wherein all who had ships upon the sea waxed rich For in one hour has she been made desolate!" 75. Rejoice over her thou heaven! And ye saints! and ye apostles! and ye prophets! For God hath for her crimes against you passed sentence upon her! And a mighty angel took up a stone like a huge millstone, and cast it into the sea; saying, "Thus with violence shall be thrown down Babylon the great city, and shall be found no more: 80. And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and flute players, and trumpeters shall be heard in thee no more : And any artificer of any ingenious art shall be found in thee no more: And the sound of a millstone shall be heard in thee no more : 85. For thy merchants were the great ones of the earth; For by thy sorceries were deceived all the nations; And in her, the blood of prophets and saints hath been found, And of all those who were slain upon the earth." 90. Salvation, and glory, and honor, And power, be unto the Lord our God! Who corrupted the earth with her lewdness; 95. And he hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand." And, a second time, they said, "HALLELUJAH!" And her smoke ascendeth forever and ever! JEBB'S SACRED LITERATURE. QUESTIONS. - To what city does this prophecy refer? From what book is it taken? Why is evil denounced upon Babylon? Who are represented as lamenting her fall? Who are they that sing "hallelujah" to God? How long ago was this prophecy written? Is it supposed to be yet fulfilled? Is Babylon, here, the real name of the city, or is it used figuratively? Where was the Babylon whose destruction is foretold in the Old Testament? Was that fulfilled? To what inflections in this lesson is Rule II, §3, applicable? To what, Rule II, §2, and $4? Which nouns in the lesson specify the merchandise spoken of in the 39th and 40th lines? Parse the sixteen nouns found in lines 47 to 53 inclusive. Parse each word contained in the 60th line. PRONUNCIATION AND ARTICULATION. Might-i-ly, not might'ly: re-mem-ber'd, not re-mem-bud: lux-u-ri-ous, not lux-u-rous: widow, not wid-der: mourn-ing, not mourn-in: o-dor-ous, not o-d'rous: i-vo-ry, not i-ver-y, nor ivry: del-i-ca-cies, not del ca-cies : trump-et-ers, not trum'p-tuz. SPELL AND DEFINE.-8. Hateful: 11. merchants: 17. iniquities: 39. merchandise: 47. cinnamon: 48. perfumes, myrrh, incense: 63. desolation: 89. hallelujah: 90. salvation: 95. avenged. LESSON LXXXIII. REMARK.- In reading poetry, that does not rhyme, the pauses should be regulated chiefly by the sense, as in prose. The poetic measure, however, should be observed, whenever it is consistent with the sense, and the construction of the sentence. Words to be Spelled and Defined. 1. Domes, n. buildings. Dusk'-y, a. dark, gloomy. Bit'-tern, n. a water fowl. [makes. Boom, n. the sound which the bittern 3. A-e-ri-al, a. placed in the air. Bask'-ed, v. lay in the sun. Yet wore one dusky hue; The cranes upon the mosque Kept their night clatter still; When through the gate the early traveler passed. And when, at evening, o'er the swampy plain Above the low horizon's lingering light, 2. Once, from the lofty walls the charioteer She was fallen! The queen of cities, Babylon was fallen! 3. Is yonder huge and shapeless heap, what once * Of Bagdad. 4. Rising, like Media's mountains, crowned with wood, A labyrinth of ruins, Babylon Spreads o'er the blasted plain. Through the broken portal, Cautious he trod, and felt The dangerous ground before him with his bow. Affrighted fled on flapping wings; 5. Twilight and moonshine, dimly mingling, gave The moon still pale and faint: An awful light obscure, Broken by many a mass of blackest shade; Long columns stretching dark through weeds and moss; Broad length of lofty wall, Whose windows lay in light, And of their former shape, low-arched or square, Rude outline on the earth Figured with long grass fringed. 6. Reclined against a column's broken shaft, It seemed as if no foot of man He stood and gazed awhile, SOUTHEY. QUESTIONS. - Where was Babylon situated, and of what was it the capital? How could a charioteer look down from the walls? Do you understand what is meant by the aërial gardens? Do you recollect any thing in the Bible about the "golden image" here mentioned? What was formerly the condition of Babylon? What became of the city? What is here represented as the appearance of the place where it stood? Where was its ruin foretold ? PRONUNCIATION AND ARTICULATION.- Ru-ins, not runes : burst, not buss: bul-warks, not bul-wuks: pal-ace, not pal-iss: lab-y-rinth, not lab-er-inth, nor labrinth: wan-der-ing, not wan-d'rin: dan-ger-ous, not dan-g'rous: aw-ful, not awe-fl: col-umns, not col-yums: whith-er-ward, not with-er-wud. SPELL AND DEFINE.- 1. Mosque, clatter, horizon: 2. myriads, scorpion: 3. imperial, adored, bridgeless: 4. fragments, intruding: 5. obscure, moss: 6. shaft, intruded, musing. LESSON LXXXIV. RULE. - Avoid reading in a monotonous way, as if you were not interested, and did not understand what you read. Words to be Spelled and Defined. 3. Pol'-i-cy, n. the art of governing nations. 4. Stren'-u-ous, a. bold, active. 5. Reg'-is-ter, n. a book in which records are kept. Dis'-taff, n. the staff of a spinning wheel, to which a bunch of flax is tied. 6. Pan-e-gyr'-ic, n. praise bestowed on eminent persons. Chi-me'-ra, n. a vain or idle fancy. 9. Drudg'-er-y, n. hard labor. 10. Ar-tif-i-cer, n. one who makes and contrives. 13. Ef-fem'-i-nate, a. womanish, tender. BENEFITS OF LITERATURE. 1. Hercules. Do you pretend to sit as high on Olympus as Hercules? Did you kill the Nemæan lion, the Erymanthian boar, the Lernean serpent, and Stymphalian birds? Did you |