Part 207 (1/2)

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”Onethe | flood that sweeps On to e | -ternity;

I who have | filled the cup, Tremble to | think of it; For, be it | what it may, I must yet | drink of it

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Room for him | into the Ranks of hu |-doer with Kindly af |-fection; Hopefully, | trustfully, Not with de |-jection

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See, in his | ardness How his fist | doubles; Thus pugi |-listical, Daring life's | troubles: Strange that the | neophyte Enters ex |-istence In such an | attitude, Feigning re |-sistance

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Could he but | have a gliainst Farther ma |-turity; Yet does it | seeainst | sinfulness A im |-mortal, Thrust all a |-mazedly Under life's | portal; Born to a | destiny Clouded in | mystery, Wisdom it |-self cannot Guess at its | history

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So; See his face | wrinkle now, Laughter pro |-voking

Now he cries | lustily-- Bravo,his | party on

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Look how his |hily?

Partly with | hopefulness, Partly with | fears, Mine, as I | look at him, Moisten with | tears

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Now then to | find a name;-- Where shall we | search for it?

Turn to his | ancestry, Or to the | church for it?

Shall we en |-dow him with title he |-roic, After some | warrior, Poet, or | stoic?

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One aunty | says he will Soon 'lisp in | nuhts to rhyme, E'en in his | slumbers; Watts rhymed in | babyhood, No ble Mr | Watts his name”

ANONYMOUS: _Knickerbocker_, and _Newspapers_, 1849

MEASURE VIII--DACTYLIC OF ONE FOOT, OR MONOMETER

”Fearfully, Tearfully”

OBSERVATIONS

OBS 1--A single dactyl, set as a line, can scarcely be used otherwise than as part of a stanza, and in connexion with longer verses The initial accent and triple rhy else with it

Hence this short measure is much less common than the others, which are accented differently Besides, the line of three syllables, as was noticed in the observations on Anapestic Monoard to the measure which it shouldof ee it from one species of verse to an other Even what seems to be dactylic of two feet, if the last syllable be sufficiently lengthened to adle rhyme with the full metre, becomes somewhat doubtful in its scansion; because, in such case, the last foot maybe reckoned an _a stanzas frole,” (or to Bonaparte on St Helena,) though different from all the rest of the piece, may serve as a specimen:--

”Far from the | _battle's shock_, Fate hath fast | bound thee; Chain'd to the | _rugged rock_, Waves warring | round thee

[Now, for] the | _tru; Hoarse on thy | _ra”