16. Here in this old neglected church,
That long eludes the traveller's search,
Lies the dead bishop on his tomb;
Earth upon earth he slumbering lies,
Life-like and death-like in the gloom;
Garlands of fruit and flowers in bloom
And foliage deck his resting-place;
A shadow in the sightless eyes,
A pallor on the patient face,
Made perfect by the furnace heat;
All earthly passions and desires
Burned out by purgatorial fires;
Seeming to say, "Our years are fleet,
And to the weary death is sweet."

17. But the most wonderful of all

The ornaments on tomb or wall
That grace the fair Ausonian shores
Are those the faithful earth restores,
Near some Apulian town concealed,
In vineyard or in harvest field:
Vases and urns and bass-reliefs,
Memorials of forgotten griefs,
Or records of heroic deeds
Of demi-gods and mighty chiefs;
Figures that almost move and speak,
And, buried amid mould and weeds,
Still in their attitudes attest
The presence of the graceful Greek:
Achilles in his armor dressed,

228. Ausonian shores: that is, Italy.
230. Apulian, from Apulia in Italy.
232. bass-reliefs, sculptures whose fig-

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ures do not stand out far from the ground or plane on which they are formed.

LITERARY ANALYSIS.—212-225. Here... sweet. this passage. Note the sadly solemn closing lines.

Make a paraphrase of

229. the faithful earth restores. Explain.-Why "the faithful earth ?” 240-244. Achilles... beautiful! From what mythology are these illustrations drawn?-Who was Aphrodite's "boy?"

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Alcides with the Cretan bull,
And Aphrodite* with her boy,
Or lovely Helena of Troy,
Still living and still beautiful!

18. Turn, turn, my wheel! 'Tis Nature's plan

The child should grow into the man,

The man grow wrinkled, old, and gray :

In youth the heart exults and sings,
The pulses leap, the feet have wings;
In age the cricket chirps, and brings
The harvest-home of day.

19. And now the winds that southward blow,
And cool the hot Sicilian isle,

Bear me away. I see below

The long line of the Libyan Nile,

Flooding and feeding the parched lands
With annual ebb and overflow:

A fallen palm whose branches lie
Beneath the Abyssinian sky,
Whose roots are in Egyptian sands.
On either bank huge water-wheels,
Belted with jars and dripping weeds,
Send forth their melancholy moans,
As if, in their gray mantles hid,
Dead anchorites of the Thebaid

Knelt on the shore and told their beads,

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242. Aphrodite: that is, Venus.

265. anchorites, religious hermits.

Thebaid [The 'ba-id] = the The

baïs, or Upper Egypt.

LITERARY ANALYSIS. 249. the feet have wings. Change into plain lan

guage.

250, 251. In age... day. Explain.

254. below. What part of speech here?

258-260. A fallen... sands. Explain the metaphor.

261. either. Query as to this use of the word. (See Swinton's New English Grammar, p. 155.)

263. their melancholy moans. To what are these likened?

Beating their breasts with loud appeals
And penitential tears and groans.

20. This city, walled and thickly set
With glittering mosque and minaret,
Is Cairo, in whose gay bazaars
The dreaming traveller first inhales
The perfume of Arabian gales,
And sees the fabulous earthen jars,
Huge as were those wherein the maid
Morgiana found the Forty Thieves
Concealed in midnight ambuscade;
And, seeing, more than half believes
The fascinating tales that run

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Through all the Thousand Nights and One,
Told by the fair Scheherezade.

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21. More strange and wonderful than these

Are the Egyptian deities—

Ammon and Emoth, and the grand
Osiris, holding in his hand.

The lotus; Isis, crowned and veiled;
The sacred Ibis, and the Sphinx;
Bracelets with blue-enamelled links;
The Scarabee in emerald mailed,
Or spreading wide his funeral wings;

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Lamps that perchance their night-watch kept
O'er Cleopatra while she slept-

All plundered from the tombs of kings.

292. Cleopatra (B.C. 69-30), the last queen of Egypt.

LITERARY ANALYSIS.—274. fabulous. Explain the application of the term

here.

275-281. Huge... Scheherezade.

Observe the nice art with which the allu

sion to the Arabian Nights' Entertainment is introduced.

283. deities. What words are in apposition with "deities?"

291. their night-watch kept. Explain.

292. Cleopatra. What constitutes the felicity of the choice of illustration here made?

22. Turn, turn, my wheel! The human race,
Of every tongue, of every place,

Caucasian, Coptic, or Malay,
All that inhabit this great earth,
Whatever be their rank or worth,
Are kindred and allied by birth,
And made of the same clay.

23. O'er desert sands, o'er gulf and bay,
O'er Ganges, and o'er Himalay,
Birdlike I fly, and flying sing,
To flowery kingdoms of Cathay,
And birdlike poise on balanced wing
Above the town of King-te-tching,
A burning town, or seeming so-
Three thousand furnaces that glow
Incessantly, and fill the air

With smoke uprising, gyre on gyre,
And painted by the lurid glare
Of jets and flashes of red fire.

24. As leaves that in the autumn fall,

Spotted and veined with various hues,
Are swept along the avenues,

And lie in heaps by hedge and wall,

So from this grove of chimneys whirled
To all the markets of the world,
These porcelain leaves are wafted on-
Light-yellow leaves, with spots and stains

304. Cathay China. The native name of China Proper is Chunghwa,

meaning
land."

"central

flowery

LITERARY ANALYSIS.-299, 300. Are... clay. Point out three synonymous expressions. Is this tautology, or is it artistic fulness of expression? 308. Three thousand furnaces. Supply the ellipsis.

311. painted by, etc. To what word is this phrase an adjunct?

313-324. As leaves... céladon. What kind of sentence grammatically?— What is the figure of speech?-Point out an expression of marked delicacy and beauty.

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Of violet and of crimson dye,
Or tender azure of a sky

Just washed by gentle April rains,
And beautiful with céladon.

25. Nor less the coarser household wares—
The willow pattern that we knew
In childhood, with its bridge of blue
Leading to unknown thoroughfares;
The solitary man who stares
At the white river flowing through
Its arches, the fantastic trees
And wild perspective of the view;
And intermingled among these
The tiles that in our nurseries
Filled us with wonder and delight,
Or haunted us in dreams at night.

26. And yonder by Nankin, behold!

The tower of Porcelain, strange and old,
Uplifting to the astonished skies.

Its ninefold painted balconies,
With balustrades of twining leaves,
And roofs of tile, beneath whose eaves
Hang porcelain bells that all the time
Ring with a soft, melodious chime;
While the whole fabric is ablaze
With varied tints, all fused in one
Great mass of color, like a maze
Of flowers illumined by the sun.

324. céladon, a color between blue and green. By the caprice of the court ladies, this color was thus

called from Céladon, a character in the romance of Astrée. -MENAGE.

LITERARY ANALYSIS.-325. coarser household wares. Explain.

326-332. The willow...view. The sub-humorous quality of this description will be appreciated by all who have seen "the willow pattern."

339. astonished. Explain the application of the epithet here.

345-348. While . . . sun.

Observe the fine use of words in this passage.

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