2. 3. 4. Young Spring, bright Summer, Autumn's solemn form, In mournful cadences, that come abroad Like the far wind-harp's wild and touching wail, Gone from the earth forever. For memory and for tears. Still chambers of the heart, "Tis a time Within the deep, a specter dim, Whose tones are like the wizard voice of Time, And solemn finger to the beautiful And holy visions that have passed away, And left no shadow of their loveliness On the dead waste of life. That specter lifts The coffin-lid of Hope and Love And, bending mournfully above the pale, Sweet forms, that slumber there, scatters dead flowers The year Has gone, and with it many a glorious throng It passed o'er Yet, ere it melted in the viewless air, It heralded its millions to their home In the dim land of dreams. 5. 6. Remorseless Time! Fierce spirit of the glass and scythe! what power His iron heart to pity? On, still on He presses, and forever. The proud bird, The condor of the Andes, that can soar Through heaven's unfathomable depths, or brave And bathe his plumage in the thunder's home, Knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, And night's deep darkness has no chain to bind Revolutions sweep O'er earth, like troubled visions o'er the breast And like the Pleiad, loveliest of their train, EXAMPLE: JOY AND GLADNESS. Energetic Force, Pure Tone, Expulsive and Explosive Forms. Spring. BRYANT. 1. Is this a time to be gloomy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around, And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground? 2. The clouds are at play in the azure space, And their shadows at play on the bright green vale; 3. And looked at the broad-faced sun, how he smiles EXAMPLE: ARGUMENTATIVE AND ORATORICAL. Energetic Force, Orotund Quality, Expulsive Form. Responsibilities of our Republic. JOSEPH STORY. 1. The old world has already revealed to us, in its unsealed books, the beginning and end of all its own marvelous struggles in the cause of liberty. Greece, lovely Greece, "the land of scholars and the nurse of arms," where sister republics in fair procession chanted the praises of liberty and the gods, where and what is she? For two thousand years the oppression has bound her to the earth. Her arts are no more. The last sad relics of her temples are but the barracks of a ruthless зoldiery; the fragments of her columns and her palaces are in the dust, yet beautiful in ruin. She fell not when the mighty were upon her. Her sons were united at Thermopyla and Marathon, and the tide of her triumph rolled back upon the Hellespont. She was conquered by her own factions. She fell by the hands of her own people. The man of Macedonia did not the work of destruction. It was already done, by her own corruptions, banishments, and dissensions. 2. Rome, republican Rome, whose eagles glanced in the rising and setting sun, where and what is she? The Eternal City yet remains, proud even in her desolation, noble in her decline, venerable in the majesty of religion, and calm as in the composure of death. The malaria has but traveled in the paths worn by her destroyers. More than eighteen centuries have mourned over the loss of her empire. A mortal disease was upon her vitals before Cæsar had crossed the Rubicon. The Goths and Vandals and Huns, the swarms of the North, completed only what was already begun at home. Romans betrayed Rome. The legions were bought and sold, but the people offered the tribute-money. When we reflect on what has been and is, how is it possible not to feel a profound sense of the responsibleness of this republic to all future ages! What vast motives press upon us for lofty efforts! What brilliant prospects invite our enthusiasm! What solemn warnings at once demand our vigilance and moderate our confidence! 1. Define Energetic Force. QUESTIONS. 2. When combined with Orotund, Effusive Form, what styles of thought and feeling may be appropriately expressed? 3. What, when combined with Pure Tone, Expulsive and Explosive? 4. What, when with Orotund, Expulsive Form? 5. With what other Qualities and Forms may it be combined? 6. Selections. "Closing year." "Spring." "Responsibilities of our Republic." 1. Lo, the poor Indian! 2. Little lads looking about. 3. Learned lads like long lessons. 4. Leaves have their time to fall. 5. Leave me, leave me to die alone. Impassioned Force. Impassioned is the degree of Force heard in the expression of violent and imptuous emotion. To cultivate Impassioned Force repeat each of the elements, words, and sentences twelve times, beginning with the mildest sound that can be given in Effusive Form, Pure Tone, Subdued Force, and gradually increasing with each repetition, retaining the same pitch as nearly as possible. DIAGRAM OF SUBDUED, MODERATE, ENERGETIC, AND IMPASSIONED FORCE. |