Upon noon's hot face: yet one couldn't but love h
For she looked like a mother whose first babe
Rocked on her breast, as she swung all day;
And she seemed in the same silver tone to say,
Passing away! passing away!"

While yet I looked, what a change there came!

Her eye was quenched, and her cheek was wan
Stooping and staffed was her withered frame,
Yet just as busily swung she on:

The garland beneath her had fallen to dust;
The wheels above her were eaten with rust;
The hands that over the dial swept

Grew crooked and tarnished, but on they kept;
And still there came that silver tone

From the shriveled lips of the toothless crone
(Let me never forget to my dying day,
The tone or the burden of that lay),
"PASSING AWAY! PASSING AWAY!"

II. Analyze this sentence:

"O, how bright were the wheels that told

Of the lapse of time as they moved round slow!"

III. In this word picture of a lifetime, in how many phases is th character represented? What lesson is taught by the refrain in the five stanzas? Select three similes.

54. - A Dutch Governor.

bûr'go-más-ter, mayor.

dun'der-pāte, dunce, dullard.

de-ter mine, reach a conclusion. skidş, timber supports.

PREPARATORY NOTES.

This narrative, in Washington Irving's best vein of humor, is from his "Knickerbocker's History of New York." Wouter (or Walter) Van Twiller was the second of four governors whom the Dutch West India Company sent out to rule their colony of New Netherlands (now New York State), and who held this office from 1623 to 1637. In the person of Van Twiller, Irving wittily caricatures the quaint and phlegmatic peculiarities of the Dutch colonists of New Amsterdam (now New York City.)

PART I.

1. The renowned Wouter (or Walter) Van Twiller was descended from a long line of Dutch burgomasters, who had successively dozed away their lives, and grown fat upon the bench of magistracy in Rotterdam, and who had comported themselves with such singular wisdom and propriety that they were never either heard or talked of-which, next to being universally applauded, should be the object of ambition of all magistrates and rulers.

2. There are two opposite ways by which some men make a figure in the world; one by talking faster than they think, and the other by holding their tongues and not thinking at all. By the first, many a smatterer acquires the reputation of a man of quick parts: by the other, many a dunderpate, like the owl, the stu

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4. With all his reflective habits, he never made his mind on a subject. His adherents accounted this by the astonishing magnitude of his ideas. conceived every subject on so grand a scale, that he h not room in his head to turn it over and examine bo sides of it.

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6. The person of this illustrious old gentleman was formed and proportioned as though it had been molded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable of supporting it; wherefore she wisely declined the attempt, and settled it firmly on the top of his backbone, just between his shoulders. His body was oblong, and particularly capacious. His legs were short, but sturdy in proportion to the weight they had to sustain; so that when erect he had not a little the appearance of a beer barrel on skids.

7. His face, that infallible index of the mind, presented a vast expanse, unfurrowed by any of those lines and angles which disfigure the human countenance with what is termed expression. Two small gray eyes twinkled feebly in the midst, like two stars of lesser magnitude in a hazy firmament; and his full

fed cheeks, which seemed to have taken toll of eve thing that went into his mouth, were curiously mott and streaked with dusky red, like a Spitzenberg appl 8. His habits were as regular as his person. daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exac an hour to each; he smoked and doubted eight hou and he slept the remaining twelve of the four a twenty.

9. Such was the renowned Wouter Van Twiller, a true philosopher, for his mind was either elevat above, or tranquilly settled below, the cares and p plexities of this world. He had lived in it for yea without feeling the least curiosity to know whether t sun revolved round it, or it round the sun; and he h watched, for at least half a century, the smoke curli from his pipe to the ceiling, without once troubling head with any of those numerous theories by which philosopher would have perplexed his brain, in counting for its rising above the surrounding atm phere.

I. Write the analysis of: descend (scandere); successive (cede comport (portare); casual (cadere); invincible (vincere); perplex (plectere); reflective (flectere); circumference (ferre).

Give synonyms of: renowned; illustrious; magnitude; stupendous.

II. Select all the adjectives in paragraph 1, all the nouns in pa graph 2, and all the verbs in paragraph 3. In paragraph 5, select all past tenses and past participles.

II. In paragraph 1, select an example of irony Definition 11). paragraph 2, select a simile. In paragraph 3, select an example of hy bole (Definition 9).