4. What analogy may we draw between the tide and the year-cycle?
5. What is the purpose of the first stanza?
6. Explain the line "Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold," and find examples in life to verify it.
7. What are the signs of summer?
8. How does this season of the year affect the human heart?
9. Compare the second stanza with the theme and the style of Wordsworth's "Ode on Immortality," XII, 324.
FOR REFERENCE
"Four Famous American Writers."—Cody.
"James Russell Lowell."—Scudder.