An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking

Cawillingly to school. And then the lover,
Shing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Mde to his mistress' eye-brow.--Then, a soldier,
Il of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard;
Jdous in honor; sudden and quick in quarrel ;
Seeking the bubble reputation,

Even in the cannon's mouth.And then the justice
In fair round body, with good capon lined-
ith eyes severe and beard of formal cut!
Tull of wise laws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.-The sixth age shifts
no the lean and slipper'd pantaloon;

ith spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
s youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide
or his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice;
arning again towards childish treble, pipes
nd whistles in his sound.-Last scene of all,
hat ends this strange eventful history,
second childishness, and mere oblivion ;
ins teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.

COLUMBUS TO FERDINAND.

LUMBUS was a considerable number of years engaged in soliciting the Court of Spain to fit him out, in order to discover a new conti nent, which he imagined existed somewhere in the western parts of the ocean. During his negotiation, he is supposed to have address ed king FERDINAND in the following stanzas :LLUSTRIOUS Monarch of Iberia's soil, Too long I wait permission to depart : Sick of delays, I beg thy listening earShine forth the patron and the prince of art. While yet Columbus breathes the vital air, Grant his request to pass the western main Reserve this glory for thy native soil,

;

And what must please thee more-for thy own reign.
Of this huge globe how small a part we know—
Does heaven their worlds to western suns deny?
How disproportioned to the mighty deep,
The lands that yet in human prospect lie!
Does Cynthia, when to western skies arriv❜d,
Spend her sweet beam upon the barren main,
And ne'er allume with midnight splendor, she,
The native dancing on the lightsome green
Should the vast circuit of the world contain

?

istes of ocean, and such scanty land?
son's voice that bids me think not so;
more nobly of th' Almighty hand.
von fair lamp trace half the circle round
t the waves and monsters of the seas?
there must beyond the billowy waste,
and men, and animals, and trees.
mitting flame my breast inspires
new land amidst the barren waves,
falling low, the source of day descends,
blue sea his evening visage laves.
this tragic lay, Cordova's sage ;*

me shall come, when numerous years are past,
an shall dissolve the band of things,
extended region rise at last ;

this shall disclose the mighty land,
away, where none have roved before ;
ll the world's remotest regions be
r's rock, or Thule's savage shore."
the theme I languish to depart.

the bark, and bid Columbus sail;

as no storms upon th' untravell❜d deep;
He shall steer, and skill disarm the gale.
Nor does he dread to lose the intended course,
Though far from land the reeling galley stray,
And skies above, and gulphy seas below
Be the sole object seen for many a day.
Think not that nature has unveill'd in vain
The mystic magnet to the mortal eye,
So late have we the guided needle plann'd
Only to beneath our native sky?

Ere this was found the ruling power of all,
Found for our use an ocean in the land,

Its breadth so small we could not wander long,
Nor long be absent from the neighboring strand.
Short was the course, and guided by the stars;
But stars no more shall point our daring way;
The Bear shall sink, and every guard be drown'd,
And great Arcturus scarce escape the sea.

When southward we shall steer-O grant my wish,
Supply the bark, and bid Columbus sail;
He dreads no tempest on the untravell❜d deep,
Reason shall steer, and skill disarm the gale.

# Seneca, the poet, native of Cordova, in Spain.