Then, covered with uncounted wounds,
He sank beside his child,
And they who found them say, in death
Each on the other smiled.
Phrase Exercise.
1. Stalwart grain.—2. Serried shields.—3. Unrecking harm.—4. The black crescent crept.—5. Whirr of bullets.—6. Reeled but an instant.—7. Met their doom like men.—8. Awful strife.—9. Calm disdain of life.—10. Shone like tassels of the corn.—11. Sweet pout.—12. Quivering bound.—13. Spurning feet.—14. Unflickering flame.—15. Unblenching aim.
LVII.—THE RUBY-THROATED HUMMING-BIRD.
Audubon.