No living man can send me to the shades
Before my time; no man of woman born,
Coward or brave, can shun his ——.
NEGLECT, n. ([page 251]).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is neglect? negligence? How do the two words compare? 2. What senses has negligence that neglect has not? 3. Which of the two words may be used in a passive sense? 4. What is the legal phrase for a punishable omission of duty?
EXAMPLES.
Ah, why
Should we, in the world's riper years, ——
God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore
Only among the crowd.
But, alas, to make
A fixed figure, for the hand of ——
To point his slow unmoving finger at.