These tender lines by Francis Miles Finch, an American poet an jurist, were drawn out, in 1867, by the beautiful action of the wome of Columbus, Mississippi, who, on Decoration Day, had strewed flower impartially" alike for the friend and the foe" -on the graves o Confederate and Federal soldiers. The stirring tribute to Nathan Hal (Lesson 80, Fourth Reader), affords another example of this poet's pe culiar gifts of sympathy and tenderness.

(1) By the flow... have fled. The allusion is to the ironclad gun boats used on the Mississippi and other Southern rivers, in the civi war. (1) Blue... Gray: i.e., the Federals and the Confederates; th uniform of the Northern soldiery in the late war was blue, and that o the Southerners gray.- (2) These: i.e., "the Blue." - (2) Those: i.e "the Gray."(2) laurel: the tree from whose leaves were mad wreaths for the victors in ancient contests.- (2) the willow: one o the emblems of sorrow and bereavement.-(6) In the storm... fading i.e., the storm of war.- (7) they laurel: they decorate.- (7) They: i.e the women of the South.- (7) our dead: i.e., Northern dead (Judg Finch is a resident of the State of New York).

FIFTH READER.

Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day:
Wet with the rain, the Blue;
Wet with the rain, the Gray.

6. Sadly, but not with upbraiding,
The generous deed was done;

In the storm of the years that are fading
No braver battle was won, -
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day:
Under the blossoms, the Blue;

Under the garlands, the Gray.

7. No more shall the war cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red;
They banish our anger forever,

When they laurel the graves of our dead, -
Under the sod and the dew,

Waiting the judgment day:

Love and tears, for the Blue;
Tears and love, for the Gray.

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LANGUAGE STUDY.

I. Write the analysis of: impartial (pars); defeat (facere).
II. In stanza 1 select two adverbial phrases; one adjective phrase.

III. Is the first sentence a period, or a loose sentence? What word in stanza 1 gently expresses the thought, are in their graves? (This figure is called euphemism.) In stanza 2 point out an antithesis. "Under the laurel, under the willow" (2): what is the figure of speech? (See Def. 8.) In stanza 5 select a simile. Point out variations in the refrain

The "Economical Project" is one of the pieces of pleasantry v which Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) used to amuse himself du the years he spent in Paris as commissioner for the United States ernment. Franklin was master of a very pithy style.

1. I was the other evening in a grand compa where a new lamp was introduced and much admi for its splendor; but a general inquiry was m whether the oil it consumed was not in exact prop tion to the light it afforded. No one present could isfy us in that point, which all agreed ought to known; it being a very desirable thing to lessen, possible, the expense of lighting our apartments. was pleased to see this general concern for econo for I love economy exceedingly.

2. I went home, and to bed, three or four hours a midnight, with my head full of the subject. An a dental sudden noise waked me about six in the mo ing, when I was surprised to find my room filled w light, and I imagined at first that a number of th lamps had been brought into it; but, rubbing my e I perceived the light came in at the windows. I got and looked out to see what might be the occasion of