. Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . the most gifted poet That ever breathed a word,And never earths philosopher Traced with his golden the deathless page, truths half so sage As he wrote down for men. And had he not high honor— The hillside for a pall,—To lie in state while angels wait, With stars for tapers tall,—And the dark rock-pines, like tossing plumes, Over his bier to Gods own hand in that lonely land, To lay him in the grave? In that strange grave without a name, Whence his uncoffined clayShall break again, O wondrous thought! Before the Judgm


. Stepping stones to literature : a reader for sixth grades . the most gifted poet That ever breathed a word,And never earths philosopher Traced with his golden the deathless page, truths half so sage As he wrote down for men. And had he not high honor— The hillside for a pall,—To lie in state while angels wait, With stars for tapers tall,—And the dark rock-pines, like tossing plumes, Over his bier to Gods own hand in that lonely land, To lay him in the grave? In that strange grave without a name, Whence his uncoffined clayShall break again, O wondrous thought! Before the Judgment Day,And stand, with glory wrapt around. On the hills he never trod,And speak of the strife that won our life. With the Incarnate Son of God. O lonely grave in Moabs land I O dark Beth-peors hill ISpeak to these curious hearts of ouis, And teach them to be still. 188 STEPPING STONES TO LITERATURE. (iod hath his mysteries of grace. Ways that we caimot tell;He hides them deep, like the hidden sleep Of Him He loved so well. XXXV. ROME AND THE T ^HE Greeks lived on a peninsulawhich extended through the south-em part of Europe down into the greatsea toward Africa. To the westward ofGreece is another peninsula extendingin the same direction. It is long andnarrow, shaped, as your geographies tellyou, like a boot; you know it as Italy. On this peninsula there lived in an-cient times a people no less famous thanthe Greeks, though they were very dif-erent from them. These people werethe Romans. Their capital city, Rome,stood on the banks of the River Tiber,and became the most famous city in the .world. TheRomans did not have the same love for beauty that theGreeks had; they were a commoner and coarser people,but honest, industrious, and frugal. They lived very simplyand very plainly in towns and on their farms. This wasbefore they learned luxury from the Greeks and the peopleof the far East. Although they did not have as greatartists, poets, and writers of history as ha


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