Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . was lost. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. —Benjamin Franklin. 116 A READER FOR THE FIFTH GRADE THE CLOUD I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams;I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds, every one,When rocked to rest on their mothers breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail,And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain
Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . was lost. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. —Benjamin Franklin. 116 A READER FOR THE FIFTH GRADE THE CLOUD I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams;I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds, every one,When rocked to rest on their mothers breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail,And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain,And laugh as I pass in thunder. I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky;I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. —Percy Bysshe Shelley {Abridged). wield : to handle, use.—flail: an instrument for beating grain fromthe ear by hand. It consists of a wooden handle to which is fastened ashorter and heavier wooden club so hung as to swing freely. A JAPANESE SCHOOLBOY 117 A JAPANESE SCHOOLBOY. At the age of six I was sent to schooLFor some time before the fall opening,I was filled with excitement and curi-osity and looked forward to the daywith great impatience. As our neigh-bors were few and scattered and Idid not have many playmates, I won-dered how I should feel on meeting somany strange before, I insisted on having a play school athome to prepare myself a little for the great event,and with my mother as teacher I learned the numeralsand the forty-eight letters of the Japanese alphabetby heart. I wished to do just as I would at school,and so I used to go outdoors and with measured stepsapproach the porch. Entering the house, I sat downbefore a table, and cheerfully began to study. The few days before the opening of the school weretaken for my preparation. I needed copy-books, aslate, an abacus, which is a frame strung with wireson which are wooden beads to be moved in countingand reckoning, and a smal
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