When the wind down the river is fair.

7. Oh, remembered for aye be the blessed Isle,
All the day of our life till night--
When the evening comes with its beautiful smile,
And our eyes are closing to slumber awhile,
May that "Greenwood." of Soul be in sight


DEFINITIONS.--1. Realm, region, country. Rhythm, the harmonious flow of
vocal sounds. Rhyme, a word answering in sound to another word. Surge, a
great, rolling swell of water. 3. Ves'per, pertaining to the evening
service in the Roman Catholic Church. 6. Mi-rage' (pro. me-razh'), an
optical illusion causing objects at a distance to seem as though suspended
in the air. 7. Aye (pro. a), always, ever.


NOTES.--5. A lute unswept, that is, unplayed.

7. Greenwood is a notes and very beautiful cemetery at the southern
extremity of Brooklyn, N.Y. The expression means, then, the resting place
of the soul.



LXXV. THE BOSTON MASSACRE.

George Bancroft (b. 1800, d. 1891) was born at Worcester, Mass. He was an
ambitious student, and graduated at Harvard College before he was eighteen
years of age. He then traveled in Europe, spending some time at the German