er, England. He was
educated at Winchester and Oxford. About 1745, he went to London as a
literary adventurer, and there won the esteem of Dr. Johnson. His "Odes"
were published in 1746, but were not popular. He was subsequently relieved
from pecuniary embarrassment by a legacy of 2,000 Pounds from a maternal
uncle; but he soon became partially insane, and was for some time confined
in an asylum for lunatics. He afterwards retired to Chichester, where he
was cared for by his sister until his death.

1. How sleep the brave who sink to rest
By all their country's wishes blessed!
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallowed mold,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.

2. By fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen their dirge is sung;
There honor comes a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair
To dwell a weeping hermit there!

LXIII. THE RAINBOW.

John Keble (b. 1792. d. 1866) was born near Fairfax, Gloucestershire,
England. He graduated at Oxford with remarkably high honors, and
afterwards was appointed to the professorship of poetry in that
university. Since his death, Keble College, at Oxford, has been erected to
his memory. In 1835, he became vicar of Hursley and rector of Otterbourne,
and held these livings until his death. His most famous work is "The
Christian Year," a collection of sacred poems.

1. A fragment of a rainbow bright
Through the moist air I see,
All dark and damp on yonder height,
All bright and clear to me.

2. An hour ago the storm was here,
The gleam was far behind;
So will our joys and grief appear,
When earth has ceased to blind.

3. Grief will be joy if on its edge
Fall soft that holiest ray,
Joy will be grief if no faint pledge
Be there of heavenly day.

LXIV. SUPPOSED SPEECH OF JOHN ADAMS.

Daniel Webster (b. 1782, d. 1852) was born in Salisbury, N.H. He spent a
few months of his boyhood at Phillips Academy, Exeter, but fitted for
college under Rev. Samuel Wood, of Boscawen, N.H. He graduated from
Dartmouth College in 1801. He taught school several terms, during and
after his college course. In 1805, he was admitted to the bar in Boston,
and practiced law in New Hampshire for the succeeding eleven years. In
1812, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives. In
1816, he remov