Lie in three words health peace and competence _Id_

Not so for once indulged they sweep the main
Deaf to the call or hearing hear in vain _Anon_

Say will the falcon stooping from above
Smit with her varying plumage spare the dove _Pope_

Throw Egypts by and offer in its stead
Offer the crown on Berenices head _Id_

Falsely luxurious will not man awake
And springing from the bed of sloth enjoy
The cool the fragrant and the silent hour _Thomson_

Yet thus it is nor otherwise can be
So far from aught romantic what I sing _Young_

Thyself first know then love a self there is
Of virtue fond that kindles at her charms _Id_

How far that little candle throws his beams
So shines a good deed in a naughty world _Shakspeare_

You have too much respect upon the world
They lose it that do buy it with much care _Id_

How many things by season seasoned are
To their right praise and true perfection _Id_

Canst thou descend from converse with the skies
And seize thy brothers throat For what a clod _Young_

In two short precepts all your business lies
Would you be great--_be virtuous_ and _be wise Denham_

But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed
What then is the reward of virtue bread _Pope_

A life all turbulence and noise may seem
To him that leads it wise and to be praised
But wisdom is a pearl with most success
Sought in still waters and beneath clear skies _Cowper_

All but the swellings of the softened heart
That waken not disturb the tranquil mind _Thomson_

Inspiring God who boundless spirit all
And unremitting energy pervades
Adjusts sustains and agitates the whole _Id_

Ye ladies for indifferent in your cause
I should deserve to forfeit all applause
Whatever shocks or gives the least offence
To virtue delicacy truth or sense
Try the criterion tis a faithful guide
Nor has nor can have Scripture on its side. _Cowper_

EXERCISE VIII.--SCANNING.

_Divide the following_ VERSES _into the feet which compose them, and
distinguish by marks the long and the short syllables_.

_Example I.--"Our Daily Paths"--By F. Hemans_.

"There's Beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise;
We may find it where a hedgerow showers its blossoms o'er our way,