The Danish king1 could not in all his pride But seated in this chair, I can in rhyme I see again, as one in vision sees, And hear the children's voices shout and call, I see the smithy with its fires aglow, I hear the bellows blow, And the shrill hammers on the anvil beat The iron white with heat! And thus, dear children, have ye made for me And to my more than threescore years and ten 4 Brought back my youth again. The heart hath its own memory, like the mind, And in it are enshrined 5 6 The precious keepsakes, into which is wrought The giver's loving thought. 1 Danish king. The allusion is to King Cnut (see Fifth Reader, Lesson 99). 2 repel. See Glossary. 4 threescore, etc. When was Longfellow born? 5 enshrined, as though put in a shrine, or receptacle for sacred 8 roll. . . Time. Explain this relics. figurative expression. 6 precious. See Glossary. Only your love and your remembrance could And make these branches, leafless now so long, 2. THE DAY IS DONE. THE day is done, and the darkness I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, A feeling of sadness and longing, As the mist resembles the rain.4 Come, read to me some poem, 1 give life or figurative? Blossom. Literal 2 wafted (allied to wave), floated. 8 akin (a, off, and kin, race, kind), literally, of the same kind; related to, like. Note that this adjective follows the noun it modifies. 4 As the mist, etc. Show the appositeness of this beautiful simile. 5 lay, song. 6 banish, originally to put under ban, or proclamation: hence, to exile, and secondarily to drive away. Not from the grand old masters, For, like strains of martial music, Read from some humbler poet, Who, through long days of labor, Such songs have power to quiet Then read from the treasured volumea And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. 1 corridors of Time. What is the figure of speech? 2 As showers. Or tears, etc. What are these two comparisons used to illustrate? 3 the benediction. Explain the meaning of the word here. What is the figure of speech? 4 the treasured volume. What is the thought? And the night shall be filled with music, 3. THE BELL OF ATRI. [From the Tales of a Wayside Inn.] AT Atri2 in Abruzzo,3 a small town Of ancient Roman date, but scant renown,- Then rode he through the streets with all his train,7 1 Shall fold... away. A much- | quoted couplet. It contains a metaphor and a simile: point out each, and show their appropriateness. 3 Abruzzo (pron. ä-brīvť'so), a province of Italy. 4 have run... sat down. What is the figure of speech? 2 Atri (pron. ä'trē), a town of Italy, anciently Hadria, the birth-Italian for King John. 5 Re Giovanni (pron. rā jo-vā′nē), place of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. 6 projecting. See Glossary. 7 train. Explain. Was done to any man, he should but ring How swift2 the happy days in Atri sped,3 By chance it happened that in Atri dwelt A knight, with spur on heel and sword in belt, He sold his horses, sold his hawks and hounds, 1 syndic, an officer of justice. 2 swift swiftly. 8 sped, made haste. 4 decay. See Webster. 5 unraveled. Explain. 6 votive (from Latin votum, a vow), given by vow, given as an offering. 7 hoods: that is, the cloth blinders put on the hunting hawk in the early stages of the chase. 8 prodigalities. Give a synonym. |