with joy the stars perform their shining, led by themselves, and unregardful porn voice! long since, severely clear, like thine in mine own heart I hear: Ive to be thyself; and know that he inds himself loses his misery!" Explain the last two lines of the sixth stanza? ATTENTION THE SOUL OF GENIUS. DEWEY. DEWEY was born in Sheffield, Mass., in 1794, and graduated at ege in 1814. He was settled as pastor over Unitarian churches ew York, and other places, and gained reputation as a pulpiteturer. He died in 1882. E young man," it is often said, "has genius he would only study." Now the truth is, as I e the liberty to state it, that genius will study; in the mind which does study; that is the very it. I care not to say that it will always use 2. By study, I mean But let o geniuses and hardest students of any me. "Study," says Cicero, "is the tense occupation of mind directed wit of will to any subject, such as philosop etry, letters." Such study, such inten and nothing else, is genius. 3. Attention it is, - though other this transcendent power, - attention very soul of genius: not the fixed ey over a book, but the fixed thought. action of the mind which is steadily o one idea or one series of ideas, whi point the rays of the soul, till they and fire the whole train of its though 4. And while the fire burns within, may indeed be cold, indifferent, negli appearance; he may be an idler, or a ently without aim or intent; but st within. And what though "it bursts as has been said, "like volcanic fires, original, native force?" It only show tion of the elements beneath. 5. What though it breaks like lig cloud? The electric fire had been col mament through many a silent, calm What though the might of genius app sive blow, struck in some moment or at the crisis of a nation's peril? 6. That mighty energy, though it ma the breast of a Demosthenes, was once mother's eye watched over its dawning. A e guarded its early growth. It soon trod ul step the halls of learning, and found other ake and to watch for it. It went on; but upon its path, and the deep strugglings of soul marked its progress, and the cherishing ature silently ministered to it. elements around breathed upon it, and to finer issues." The golden ray of heaven , and ripened its expanding faculties. The tions of years slowly added to its collected nd energies, till, in its hour of glory, it stood lied in the form of living, commanding, irreuence! world wonders at the manifestation, and says, strange that it should come thus unsought, ated, unprepared." But the truth is, there a miracle in it than there is in the towering eminent forest tree, or in the flowing of the 1 irresistible river, or in the wealth and the the boundless harvest. hful aspirants after intellectual eminence, get, I entreat you— banish, banish forever, and senseless idea that anything will serve ose but study, -intense, unwearied, absorbing s, acting from its own | pre-em'i-nent, superior; loftier than the others. ee. rning point. gave service. as-pi'rant, one who seeks with eager ness. the mind concentrated on one idea (3); expanding facul Demosthenes and Cicero? Tell, as well as you can, what is hilosophy"; by "poetry "; by "geometry." CII. THE CHAMBERED N HOLMES. THE nautilus, while growing, vacates successively partitions them off into air-tight chambers. This little poem meets all the requirements of the b 1. THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poe Sails the unshadowed main, The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purp In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sur hair. 2. Its webs of living gauze no more unf Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wo 1 Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless cry 3. Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for t Stretched in his last found home, an no more. པ་ས༦, ild of the wandering sea, st from her lap, forlorn! y dead lips a clearer note is born wer Triton blew from wreathéd horn! hile on mine ear it rings, h the deep caves of thought I hear a voice. that sings: hee more stately mansions, O my soul, the swift seasons roll! ave thy low-vaulted past! h new temple, nobler than the last, nee from heaven with a dome more vast, 11 thou at length art free, g thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! , having colors like those spi'ral, a curved line receding con ), in Grecian mythology, was a demigod, and the sea Neptune, the god of the sea. allay the sea. our own words the moral. He blew through a shell to THE BEST ARMOR. AT stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? ice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, I he but naked, though locked up in steel, ose conscience with injustice is corrupted. Shakespeare. |