THE DYING OX.

But ah! sad sight, beneath the plough's fell weight
The smoking ox falls down and meets his fate;
While from his nostrils issue foam and gore,
And groans that tell his life will soon be o'er.
With heavy heart the hind unyokes his mate
Who mourns a brother's all-untimely fate.
Fixed in the furrow midway stands the share,
His toilsome task the ox must now forbear.
No boskage of deep groves, no tender grass
May move him now, no mountain streams that pass
Down to the valley clear as crystal glass.

His flanks upheave, his eyes are glazed, his head

Sinks heavily to earth: the ox is dead.

His toil, his service, what are all now worth?

What boots him to have turned the stubborn earth?
And yet he was not hurt by feasts or wine
That Bacchus pressed from out the Massic vine :
Green leaves and grass were all his simple fare,
His drink clear springs and running streams, and ne'er
Was his sound sleep disturbed by wakeful care.

W. P. SMITH.

BOS MORIBUNDUS.

Ecce autem duro fumans sub vomere taurus
Concidit, et mixtum spumis vomit ore cruorem,
Extremosque ciet gemitus. It tristis arator,
Mærentem abjungens fraternâ morte juvencum,
Atque opere in medio defixa relinquit aratra.
Non umbræ altorum nemorum, non mollia possunt
Prata movere animum, non qui per saxa volutus
Purior electro campum petit amnis: at ima
Solvuntur latera, atque oculos stupor urget inertes,
Ad terramque fluit devexo pondere cervix.

Quid labor aut benefacta juvant? quid vomere terras
Invertisse graves? atqui non Massica Bacchi
Munera, non illis epulæ nocuere repostæ :
Frondibus et victu pascuntur simplicis herbæ;
Pocula sunt fontes liquidi atque exercita cursu
Flumina: nec somnos abrumpit cura salubres.

VIRGIL GEORGIC III, 515-530.

EDUCATION, in the most extensive sense of the word, may comprehend every preparation that is made in our youth for the sequel of our lives; and in this sense I use it. Some such preparation is necessary for children of all conditions, because without it they must be miserable and probably will be vicious, either from want of the means of subsistence or from want of rational and inoffensive occupation. In civilized life everything is effected by art and skill. Whence a person who is provided with neither, (and neither can be acquired without exercise and instruction,) will be useless; and he that is useless will generally be at the same time mischievous to the community. So that to send an uneducated child into the world is injurious to the rest of mankind; it is little better than to turn out a mad dog or a wild beast into the streets.

IDEM LATINE.

Disciplina autem, ut latissimè id verbum pateat, de institutione eâ dicitur qualicunque ad maturiorem ætatem pueri informari solemus; quæ in pueris, quocunque loco nati sint, adhibeatur necesse est, nisi enim adhibeatur, pueri quum jam adoleverint, improbi fortasse, miseri certe evadent sive quod victus inopiâ laborabunt sive quod nullum habebunt negotium quo bene innoxieque se conferant. Etenim apud gentes paullò mansuetiores nihil non arte efficitur ac sollertiâ: unde fit ut prorsus inutilis is sit qui harum utrâque careat :-sine exercitatione autem et doctrinâ neutram adipisci possumus :-inutilis verò homo idem reipublicæ plerumque perniciosus. Itaque puerum nullâ disciplinâ institutum qui in hominum societatem emiserit, universo generi nocet: neque minus nocet quam si feram in vias vel canem rabidum immiserit.

S. H. BUTCHER.

THI

FROM PALAMON AND ARCITE.'

Strong god of arms, whose iron sceptre sways
The freezing north and hyperborean seas,

And Scythian colds, and Thracia's wintry coast
Where stand thy steeds, and thou art honoured most:
There most, but everywhere thy power is known,
The fortune of the field is all thy own:
Terror is thine, and wild amazement, flung
From out thy chariot, withers even the strong;
And disarray and shameful rout ensue,
And force is added to the fainting crew.
Acknowledged as thou art, accept my prayer,
If ought I have achieved deserve thy care;
If to my utmost power, with sword and shield
I dared the death, unknowing how to yield,
And falling in my rank, still kept the field:
Then let my arms prevail, by thee sustained,
That Emily by conquest may be gained.

J. DRYDEN.