A tear--his first--as he bade good-by, 10
Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye.
"I'll write, if spared." There was news of fight,
But none of Giffen.--He did not write.

I sometimes fancy that were I king
Of the courtly knights of Arthur's Ring, 15
With the voice of the minstrel in mine ear
And the tender legend that trembles here,
I'd give the best on his bended knee--
The whitest soul of my chivalry--
For Little Giffen of Tennessee. 20

1. In what war did the incidents described occur?
When and between whom did this war take place? Name
some of its great battles; its great commanders.

2 On which side was Little Giffen? Prove your
answer from the poem. Who was Johnston, line 8,
page 321? How old was Giffen? How much service had
he seen?

3. Explain the meaning of: Utter Lazarus (see Luke
xvi: 20); specter; gangrene; line 14, page 320;
line 15, page 321.

4. Name some other writers of the South.

(Used by permission of the Neale Publishing Company.)

MARCO BOZZARIS

BY FITZ-GREENE HALLECK

Marco Bozzaris (1790-1823) was born among the
mountains of Suli, in Epirus, a province of Greece.
He had early military training in the French
service; but at the age of thirty he undertook to
battle against the Turks, who were holding the
Greeks in heavy subjection. At the head of his
countrymen, the Suliotes, he won many battles; but
finally, through treachery, he and his forces were
besieged. To relieve the siege, Bozzaris led his
troops against the enemy in a night attack and won
a complete victory, but the hero fell, dying in the
hour of triumph.

At midnight, in his guarded tent,
The Turk was dreaming of the hour
When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent,
Should tremble at his power;
In dreams, through camp and court, he bore 5
The trophies of a conqueror;
In dreams, his song of triumph heard;
Then wore his monarch's signet ring;
Then pressed that monarch's throne--a king;
As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, 10
As Eden's g