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was sweet old 'Corinth' they were singing- strains that we  quantity, and 'generally rhyme; being so divided
have seldom heard since the rose-color of life was blanched -  into line as topomt harmony.
and we were in a moment back again to the old church; and  Toknso        es     r    nueb         ot
it was a summer afternoon, and yellow sunbeamns were streamn-  Tw  id  fvreaei           s    ypes,
ing through the west windows, and the slver hair of the old  nameDlly, bakvreand rhyme.  Rhyme is char-
dc!acon who sat in the pulpit was turned to gold in its light, acterized by a simlarty of suda>t the end of
and the minister, who, we used to think, could never die, so  on  liewt  nther; as
good was he, had concluded 'application' and 'exhortation,'
and the village choir were singing the last hymn, and the tune  Prasi hsngetdso s.........li
wa  Corinth.'Soehatocprgatwtceeta...fi;
"It is years -we dare not think. how many -since then,  Somes theat th o f precmi st ave  . swaed
and the prayers of 'David the son of Jesse' are ended, and the  Or aked tht as the roo>mlivin . . . .. . . .swaye."
choir scattered and gone -the girl with blue eyes that sang   O  ae  oesaytelvn~.           ,   ie
alto, and the girl with black eyes that sang air ; the eyes of one  * h  s~a  aedw  ie)  ofo  h  oA
were like a June heaven at. noon, and the other like the same  And his cohorts were glemn with purple and gl.
'heaven at night. They both became wives, and both mothers,
and both died. Who shall say they are not singing 'Corinth'
still, where Sabbaths never wane, and congregations never                Blank Vers.
break tip? There they sat, Sabbath after Sabbath, by the Blk    eseith        naege        t*   Iido
square column at the right of the ' lader,' and to our young
ears their tunes were ' the very soul of music.' That column  Poetry without rhyme, which wsteform that
bears still their penciled names, as they wrote them in those  the earlier poets almost entirely made use of.
dlays in life's June, 183-, before dreams of change had over-  The poetry of the Greeks and Romans was gn
come their spirits like a summer's cloud.               1                     id'            '
"Alas ! that with the old singers most ,of the sweeter tunes  erally without rh.yme, adnot unmtil theMidl
have died upon the air! But they linger in memory, and they Ages, when' introdued by the G1othms from the
shall yet be sung in. the sweet. reunion of song that shall North, did rhym~e come into theLaianth
take place by and by, in a hall whose columns are beams of vraua  oge     fmdr         uoe
morning light, whose ceiling is pearl, whose doors are gold, and  Bakvrei  atclrysie         oteda
where hearts never grow old. Then she that sang alto, andW
she that sang air, will be in their places once more."  ma, and wsvr      oua     ntesxenhcn
tury, during whicht time, and tile berninlO
More frequentl.y, however, the poet gives ex-    the seetenh cent~ury, hkser               rt    i
pression to his emotions in rhymie, snuch form of    plays.  The followin    from ilo'       1Prds
expression   having the advantage of music"a          LoPst " rpeetn        v'    aetadfrwl
sound,. accompanied by~ sentimient.      Unfru          Edn written in 167       lutaeIh          oe
nately, however, much of that which passes for       of expeso in ln      k verse
poetry is but rhyme, being devoid of. sense or
moral.
For the assstnce and guidance of those who              Thee, native soil! these hpywalksadshe,
would 'correctly write poetry, ivte give herewith         Fit h5an of gods? where  a  oe  osed
the rules of verification, accompanied by a vo-          Ta     utb   otlt    sbt.0 lwr
cabulary' of rhymes, 'followed by a number of            Thtnvrwl nohrciatgrw
standard poems frorn the best authors, that are           My early viiainand mylast
ERIIATION is the art of main                 By whtt ihto     ml wsset! rmte
vers.  Vrseis rythica laguag   Ho shll Ipar, ad withe waderdow
Int a oe"       wrdpt   s bcr