DEVELOPMENT XXIV.

REQUIESCAT.

Fair is her cottage in its place,

Where yon broad water sweetly, slowly, glides. It sees itself from thatch to base

Dreaming in the sliding tides.

And fairer she, but, ah, how soon to die!
Her quiet dream of life this hour may cease.

Her peaceful being slowly passes by

To some more perfect peace.

ALFRED TENNYSON.

DEVELOPMENT XXV.

THE THREE FISHERS.

Three fishers went sailing out into the west,—
Out into the west as the sun went down;

Each thought on the woman who loved him the best,
And the children stood watching them out of the town;

For men must work and women must weep,
And there's little to earn and many to keep,
Though the harbor bar be moaning.

Three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower,

And they trimmed the lamps as the sun went down; They looked at the squall and they looked at the shower,

And the night-rack came rolling up ragged and brown;

But men must work and women must weep,
Though storms be sudden and waters deep,
And the harbor bar be moaning.

Three corpses lay out on the shining sands,

In the morning gleam, as the tide went down;
And the women are weeping and wringing their hands
For those who will never come home to the town;

For men must work and women must weep,-
And the sooner its over, the sooner to sleep,-
And good-bye to the bar and its moaning.

CHARLES KINGSLEY.

DEVELOPMENT XXVI.

THE BROOK.

I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally

And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.

By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorps, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river;
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I chatter over stony ways

In little sharps and trebles,

I bubble into eddying bays,

I babble on the pebbles.

With many a curve my banks I fret
By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-weed and mallow.

I chatter, chatter, as I flow

To join the brimming river;
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on forever.

I wind about, and in and out,

With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,

And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel;

And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river;
For men may come and men may go,

But I go on forever.

ALFRED TENNYSON.

DEVELOPMENT XXVII.

AN EVENING SCENE.

Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close
Up yonder hill the village murmur rose.
There, as I passed, with careless steps and slow,
The mingling notes came softened from below;
The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung,
The sober herd that lowed to meet their young,
The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool,
The playful children just let loose from school,
The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind;—
These all in sweet confusion sought the shade,

And filled each pause the nightingale had made.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

SUBJECTS FOR DESCRIPTION.

Write descriptions of familiar scenes and familiar things. Mingle freely your reflections. Select from the following subjects:—

A Moonlight Ride.
A Fishing Excursion.

A Thunder Storm.

The Fall of the Leaves.

The Uses of Pencils.

The Toothache.

Christmas Eve.

Shells.

Apple Blossoms.

Ears.

A Balky Horse.

Describe as vividly as possible some place. Interweave some incident, or a description of some person whom you have known. The following subjects may prove suggestive:—

A Churchyard where a Friend Lies Buried.

An Old Mill and the Miller.

A Rickety Tenement where Lives a Brave Little Lad.

A Blacksmith Shop and the Blacksmith.

A Beach, and Children at Play.

The Old Jail and a Prisoner.

Describe both the appearance and character of some

person either real or imaginary.

dents you may have heard or read.

The Peddler.
The Tramp.

Little Barefoot.

A Gipsy.

Interweave some inci

Some subjects are:

The Apple Woman.

The Scissors Grinder.

A Teacher.

An Old Schoolmate.

CHAPTER VII.

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL FOR

COMPOSITION.

In this chapter we suggest how the methods already given, Reproduction, Paraphrasing, etc., may be applied somewhat more broadly to the materials of fiction, history, travel, etc. Some additional methods are also given.

The poems, tales, etc., are, of course, merely suggestive, for the literary material accessible to one teacher may not be accessible to another. Much of the work is adapted to the grade for which the main part of the book is designed; but much will, it is thought, be found quite difficult enough for a more advanced grade. The adaptation of these subjects to the ability and needs of the pupil must be left entirely to the judgment of the teacher.

FICTION AND POETRY.

1. REPRODUCTION OF SHORT STORY.-Read some interesting story; think it over; then write it out in your own way, as vividly as you can. Summarize as little as possible. Suitable for this purpose are the stories in:

Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales," "The Wonder Book," "Tanglewood Tales"; Lamb's "Tales of Shakespeare"; Hans Andersen's "Tales"; etc.