OROTUND'

"Ye living flowers that skirt the eternal frost!
Ye wild goats sporting round the eagle's nest!
Ye eagles, playmates of the mountain storm!
Ye lightnings, the dread arrows of the clouds!
Ye signs and wonders of the elements !
Utter forth God, and fill the hills with praise!

3.- Poetic Invective: Lyric Style.

"False wizard, avaunt! I have marshalled my clan :
Their swords are a thousand, their bosoms are one!

They are true to the last of their blood and their breath,
And like reapers descend to the harvest of death.

Then welcome be Cumberland's steed to the shock!
Let him dash his proud foam like a wave on the rock.
But woe to his kindred, and woe to his cause,
When Albyn her claymore indignantly draws;
When her bonneted chieftains to victory crowd,
Clan Ranald, the dauntless, and Moray the proud;
All plaided and plumed in their tartan array!"

4.- Ecstatic Poetic Apostrophe.

[THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST.]—Young.
"Hear, O ye nations! hear it, O ye dead!
He rose, He rose, he burst the bars of death.

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The theme, the joy, how then shall men sustain ?

Oh! the burst gates! crushed sting! demolished throne!
Last gasp of vanquished Death! Shout, earth and heaven,
That sum of good to man! whose nature then

Took wing, and mounted with him from the tomb.

"Man, all immortal, hail!

Hail, Heaven, all lavish of strange gifts to man!
Thine all the glory! man's the boundless bliss!

Shouting.

CITIZENS, [AFTER ANTONY'S ORATION OVER THE BODY OF CESAR.] — Shakspeare.

"Come, brands, ho! fire-brands!-To Brutus'! to Cassius'! burn all! Some to Decius' house, and some to Casca's; some to Ligarius':-away! go!"

WILLIAM TELL, [TO THE MOUNTAINS, ON REGAINING HIS LIBERTY.] J. S. Knowles.

"Ye crags and peaks, I'm with you once again!

I hold to you the hands you first beheld,

To show they still are free.

"Ye guards of liberty,

I'm with you, once again! I call to you

With all my voice! —I hold my hands to you,
To show they still are free!"

2.- Wrath and Scorn.

[FROM THE LADY OF THE LAKE.]-Scott.

Roderick Dhu, [to Malcom Grame.] "Back! beardless boy! Back! minion! - Holdst thou thus at naught

The lesson I so lately taught?.

This roof, the Douglas, and that maid,

Thank thou for punishment delayed!

Anger and Defiance.

Malcom. Perish my name, if aught afford
Its chieftain safety, save his sword!

Indignant Rebuke.

Douglas. Chieftains, forego!

Satan, [to Death.] "Whence and what art thou, execrable shape! That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance

Thy miscreated front athwart my way

To yonder gates?

Through them I mean to pass,
That be assured, without leave asked of thee:
Retire! or taste thy folly; and learn by proof,
Hell-born! not to contend with spirits of heaven."

Wrath and Threatening.1.

Death, [in reply.] “Back to thy punishment,
False fugitive! and to thy speed add wings;
Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue

Thy lingering, or, with one stroke of this dart,
Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before!"

4.- Infuriate Anger.

THE DOGE OF VENICE, [ON THE EVE OF HIS EXECUTION, IN THE CONCLUDING WORDS OF HIS CURSE ON THE CITY.] - Byron's Marino Falieri.

"Thou den of drunkards with the blood of princes!
Gehenna of the waters! thou sea Sodom!

Thus I devote thee to the infernal gods!

Thee and thy serpent seed!

[To the executioner.] Slave, do thine office!

[BOZZARIS, TO HIS BAND OF SULIOTES.] - Halleck.

"Strike till the last armed foe expires!

Strike for your altars and your fires!

Strike for the green graves of your sires,

God and your native land!"

1 The fierceness of emotion, in some instances, adds "aspirated quality "to "orotund."

EXERCISES IN "ASPIRATED QUALITY."

I." EFFUSIVE UTTERANCE.

1.- Awe, in its gentlest form, with moderate " Aspiration." ("Pectoral Quality.")

Note. The effect intended here is but the slightest approach to a whisper, - —a barely perceptible breathing sound accompanying the utterance, not unlike, in its effect, to a slight hoarseness.

[JACOB'S EXCLAMATION AFTER HIS DREAM.]

“How dreadful is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and the gate of heaven!"

2.-The same emotion deepened.

[FROM THE BOOK OF PSALMS.]

"Of old hast Thou laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of Thy hands. They shall perish, but Thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt Thou change them, and they shall be changed: but Thou art the same; and Thy years shall have no end.

"Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever Thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God.

"Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, 'Return, ye children of men.' For a thousand years, in Thy sight, are but as yesterday, when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

"Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning, they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up: in the evening, it is cut down, and withereth."

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3.-Awe, still deeper in “expression,” and stronger in “ aspiration.”

[NATURE, SHRINKING FROM DEATH.] — Campbell.

“Yet half I hear the parting spirit sigh,
'It is a dread and awful thing to die!'
Mysterious worlds, untravelled by the sun, -
Where Time's far-wandering tide has never run,·
From your unfathomed shades, and viewless spheres,
A warning comes, unheard by other ears.

"T is Heaven's commanding trumpet, long and loud,

4.

Like Sinai's thunder pealing from the cloud!
While Nature hears, with terror-mingled trust,
The shock that hurls her fabric to the dust;
And, like the trembling Hebrew, when he trod
The roaring waves, and called upon his God,
With mortal terrors clouds immortal bliss,
And shrieks, and hovers, o'er the dark abyss!

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· Awe, extending to Fear: with still stronger “aspiration.”
[FROM A RUSSIAN HYMN.] - Bowring.

"It thunders! Sons of dust, in reverence bow!
Ancient of days! thou speakest from above:
Thy right hand wields the bolt of terror now;
That hand which scatters peace and joy and love.
Almighty! trembling like a timid child,

I hear Thy awful voice, alarmed, afraid,

I see the flashes of Thy lightning wild,

And in the very grave would hide my head!"

5.- Horror and Fear: the effect transcending that of Awe; the aspiration" nearly a whisper.

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MACBETH, [MEDITATING THE MURDER OF DUNCAN.]

"Now o'er the one half world

Nature seems dead; and wicked dreams abuse
The curtained sleep; now witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate's offerings; and withered murder,
Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf,

Shakspeare.

Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace,
Towards his design

Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth!

Hear not my steps, which way they walk; for fear

The very stones prate of my whereabout,

And take the present horror from the time,

Which now suits with it."

II." EXPULSIVE 99 UTTERANCE.

1.-Horror and Amazement: "aspiration" increased by "expulsion."

("Pectoral Quality.")

HAMLET, [TO THE GHOST OF HIS FATHER.]-Shakspeare.
"What may this mean,

That thou, dead corse, again, in complete steel,