What future bliss He gives not thee to know,
But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be, blessed.
The soul, uneasy, and confined from home,
Rests and expatiates on a life to come.

Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
His soul proud science never taught to stray
Far as the solar walk, or milky way;

Yet simple nature to his soul hath given Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler Heaven

Some safer world, in depth of woods embraced,

Some happier island in the watery waste,

Where slaves once more their native land be

hold,

No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold;

To be content his natural desire,

He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's fire,
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company."

As an example of his lyrics, The Dying Christian to His Soul is one of the best :

"Vital spark of heavenly flame,
Quit, oh! quit this mortal frame;
Trembling, hoping, lingering, flying
Oh! the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life.

Hark! they whisper; angels say,
Sister spirit, come away.

What is this absorbs me quite
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,
Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?

The world recedes, it disappears!
Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears
With sounds seraphic ring;

Lend, lend your wings! I mount, I fly!
O Grave, where is thy victory?

O Death, where is thy sting?"

Studies

1. Up to this time which has been the greatest literary age? Make a table showing in brief the chief characteristics of each age. Make another

table showing graphically the comparative length of each age, representing the longest by a line one hundred units long. Each unit represents then a definite number of years. The lines for the other ages will be as many times the length of the unit as the number of years it represents is contained in the number of years in the age. Make a third table in which you represent in a similar manner the comparative value of the diferent ages as you estimate them.

2. The Age of Queen Anne and the Age of Elizabeth were both highly important. Write a comparison of the two, showing three points of marked difference between them.

3. Compare Swift, Addison, and Pope in respect to physique and character, and the quality of their writings.

4. Which is the Classic Age? Which is the Age of Romance? Why should they differ so?

5. Read the selections from Gulliver's Travels with the idea of determining whether Swift ever loses sight of the proportion he has established between reality and his people, little and great.

Does he reduce or enlarge everything in the same ratio that he does his men ?

6. Compare the style of one of the De Coverley papers with that of the selection from Swift.

7. What peculiarities can you discover in the structure of Pope's verse?