Swiftly turn the murmuring wheel!

Night has brought the welcome hour,
When the weary fingers feel

Help, as if from faery power;
Dewy night o'ershades the ground;

Turn the swift wheel round and round!

Now, beneath the starry sky,

Couch the widely-scattered sheep ;—
Ply the pleasant labour, ply!

For the spindle, while they sleep,
Runs with speed more smooth and fine,
Gathering up a trustier line.

Short-lived likings may be bred

By a glance from fickle eyes;
But true love is like the thread
Which the kindly wool supplies,
When the flocks are all at rest
Sleeping on the mountain's breast.

EXAMPLE FOR PRACTICE.

Man's life is like a Sparrow, mighty king!
That-while at banquet with your chiefs you sit
Housed near a blazing fire-is seen to flit
Safe from the wintry tempest. Fluttering,
Here did it enter; there, on hasty wing,
Flies out, and passes on from cold to cold;
But whence it came we know not, nor behold
Whither it goes. Even such, that transient thing,
The human Soul; not utterly unknown

While in the Body lodged, her warm abode;

But from what world she came, what woe or weal

On her departure waits, no tongue hath shown;

This mystery if the Stranger can reveal,

His be a welcome cordially bestowed.-Wordsworth, Sonnets.

SKELETON FORM-SUBJECT IN ITALICS.

The French drove in the outguards, cut off Norman Ramsay's battery, and came sweeping in upon the reserves and seventh division.

Their

squadrons were checked by the British, and a commotion was observed. Their troopers were seen closing, a dust arose; loud cries indicated some The crowd became agitated, a shout pealed, the mass was rent, and Norman Ramsay burst forth, his horses stretched along the plain, the guns bounded, and the gunners followed.

Occurrence.

The French with one shock drove in all the outguards, cut off Norman Ramsay's battery of horse-artillery, and came sweeping in upon the reserves and the seventh division. Their leading squadrons, approaching in a loose manner, were partially checked by the British, and then a great commotion was observed in their main body. Their troopers were seen closing with disorder and tumult towards one point, where a thick dust arose, and where loud cries and the sparkling of blades and flashing of pistols indicated some extraordinary occurrence. Suddenly, the crowd became violently agitated, an English shout pealed high and clear; the mass was rent asunder, and Norman Ramsay burst forth, sword in hand, at the head of his battery; his horses, breathing fire, stretched like greyhounds along the plain, the guns bounded behind them like things of no weight, and the mounted gunners followed close, with heads bent low and pointed weapons, in desperate

career.

EXAMPLE FOR PRACTICE.

The unthrift sun shot vital gold
A thousand pieces,

And heaven its azure did unfold
Chequered with snowy fleeces.
The air was all in spice,

And every bush

A garland wore; thus fed my eyes,
But all the ear lay hush.

Only a little fountain lent

Some use for ears,

And on the dumb shades language spent,
The music of her tears.

I drew her near, and found

The cistern full

Of divers stones, some bright and round,
Others ill-shaped and dull.-Henry Vaughan.

SKELETON FORM-SUBJECT IN ITALICS.

She dwelt by the Dove. There were none to praise her.

One star is shining.

She lived unknown. She is in her grave.

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