Alb. YOU'RE at the gate of Altorf. Ges. Tarry,' boy! Alb. I would be gone; I'm waited for. Ges. Come back! Who waits for thee? Come, tell me; I am rich And powerful, and can reward. Alb. 'Tis close On evening; I have far to go! I'm late. Ges. Stay, I can punish, too. Alb. I might have left you, When on the hill I found you fainting, and The mist around you; but I stopped and cheered you Till to yourself you came again. I offered To guide you, when you could not find the way, And I have brought you to the gate of Altorf. Alb. No. Ges. Why fear you, then, To trust me with your father's name? Alb. Why Do you desire to know it? Ges. You have served me, Speak. And I would thank him, if I chanced to pass Alb. 'Twould not please him that a service Ges. Trifling! You've saved my life. Ges. [To soldiers.] Seize him! Wilt thou tell me Thy father's name? Alb. No! Ges. I can bid them cast thee 3 Into a dungeon. Wilt thou tell it now? Alb. No! Ges. I can bid them strangle thee! Wilt tell it? Ges. Away with him! [Soldiers take off Albert through the gate.] Behind that boy I see the shadow of 4 A hand must wear my fetters, or 'twill try To strip me of my power. I have felt to-day I Have tasted fear to very sickness, and Owed to a peasant boy my safety — ay, My life! and there does live the slave can say How I loathed the free * I wished to see him miss his footing, and * Brink the precipice. Lead along the brink or edge of the precipice. Roll over! But he's in my power!- Some way 7 And harrow it! I'd like to clip the broad And full-grown wing that taught his tender pinion 1. ALL is action, all is motion 2. Duty points with outstretched' fingers 3. Onward, onward, onward, ever! 1 ÖÛT-STRETCHED' (-strěcht). Stretch- 2 BE-TĪDE'. Happen to, befall. ed out, extended. 3 HU'MAN. Relating to mankind. GEORGE P. MORRIS. 1. OLD IRONSIDES* at anchor' lay In the harbor of Mahon; † A dead calm rested on the bay, The waves to sleep had gone; The United States frigate Constitution. † Mahon (pronounced Ma hōre is a port in the Mediterranean Sea. When little Hal, the Captain's son, A lad both brave and good, 2. A shudder shot through every vein, All eyes were turned on high! There stood the boy, with dizzy brain, Between the sea and sky; No hold had he above, below, Alone he stood in air; To that far height none dared to go, - 3. We gazed, but not a man could speak; With horror all aghast, In groups, with pallid brow and cheek, 4. The father came on deck; -he gasped, "O God! thy will be done!" Then suddenly a rifle grasped, 66 And aimed it at his son. Jump, far out, boy, into the wave? "That only chance your life can save; Jump, jump, boy!" He obeyed. |