. Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . ake him sick I)With fancies, buoyant as the the face grotesque, and antic brisk, With many a lamb-like frisk,(Hes got the scissors, snipping at your gown I) Thou pretty opening rose 1(Go to your mother, child, and wipe your nosel^Balmy and breathing music like the South,(He really brings my heart into my mouth I)Fresh as the morn, and brilliant as its star,(I wish that window had an iron bar!)Bold as the hawk, yet gentle as the dove, (I 11 teU you what, my love,I cannot wiite, unless hes. sent above I) A XXVII
. Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . ake him sick I)With fancies, buoyant as the the face grotesque, and antic brisk, With many a lamb-like frisk,(Hes got the scissors, snipping at your gown I) Thou pretty opening rose 1(Go to your mother, child, and wipe your nosel^Balmy and breathing music like the South,(He really brings my heart into my mouth I)Fresh as the morn, and brilliant as its star,(I wish that window had an iron bar!)Bold as the hawk, yet gentle as the dove, (I 11 teU you what, my love,I cannot wiite, unless hes. sent above I) A XXVII. AN ICEBERG.* By Richard Henry Dana. (1815-1882.) T twelve oclock we went below, and had just gotthrough dinner, when the cook put his head downthe companion, way, and told us to come on deck and seethe finest sight we had ever seen. Where away, cook ? asked the first man who came up. On the port bow. * This description of an iceberg is taken from the authors TwoYears Before the Mast, a most interesting book of travel and stirringincidents. AN ICEBERG. 149. 160 BTEPFiNQ 8TOJ»rEa TO LITERATURS. And there, floating in the ocean, seveiai mUes off, lay animmense irregular mass, its tops and points coyered withsnow, land Its center of a deep indigo color. This was aniceberg, and of the largest size, as one of our men said whohad been in the Northern Ocean. As far as the eye could reach, the sea in every directionwas of a deep blue color, the waves running high andfresh, and sparkling in the light; and in the midst laytliis immense mountain island, its cavities and valleysthrown into deep shade, and its points and pinnaclesglittering in the sun. All hands were soon on deck,looking at it, and admiring its beauty and grandeur. But no description can give any idea of the strangenessand beauty, of the sight. Its great size, — for it must havebeen two or three miles in circumference, and several hun-dred feet in height; its slow motion, as its base rose andsank in the water, and its h
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