He counted them at break of day,-
And when the sun set, where were they!

And where are they? and where art thou, My country! On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now

The heroic bosom beats no more! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine?

You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet:
Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone?
Of two such lessons, why forget

The nobler and the manlier one!
You have the letters Cadmus gave;
Think ye he meant them for a slave!

"Tis something in the dearth of fame,
Though linked among a fettered race,
To feel at least a patriot's shame.
Even as I sing, suffuse my face;
For what is left the poet here?

For Greeks a blush,- for Greece a tear.

Must we but weep o'er days more blessed!
Must we but blush? - Our fathers bled;
Earth! render back from out thy breast
A remnant of our Spartan dead!
Of the three hundred grant but three
To make a new Thermopyla!

What! silent still? and silent all!

Ah! no; the voices of the dead

Sound like a distant torrent's fall,
And answer, "Let one living head,
But one arise we come, we come!"
"T is but the living who are dumb.

NOTE. It has not been thought necessary, by multiplying pieces for recitation or declamation, to make ours a voluminous Speaker. There are many others published, containing a great variety of Exer - cisza, and nothing elas; to which we retor our young friends.

PART VI.

GYMNASTICS AND CALISTHENICS.

GYMNASTICS AND CALISTHENICS.

THE neglect of physical education has been a great practic: error In our American system of education.

In the endeavor to secure intellectual culture in the most expeditious manner, due reference has not been had to the health, and physical aoility of the young scholar; and, as a consequence of the neglect of proper exercise and physical training, the result has unquestionably been, disease, deformity, and premature death, in no small number of instances.

The body, no less than the mind, demands the enlightened care of all guardians and teachers of youth: both require their appropriate discipline, that health, beauty, and grace, may be found coincident with mental improvement, refinement, and taste.

How seldom is all this realized as the result of our present systematic education of youth? How often is this so called education arrested or frustrated by physical infirmities, the legitimate consequences of a violation of the laws of nature, and of neglect of the requisite means for the preservation of the health of the body?

A distinguished English physician affirms that "deficiency of exercise in the open air may be considered as the parent of one-half of female disorders-the pallid complexions, the languid movements, the torpid secretions, flaccid muscles, and disordered functions, and consumption itself," he adds, "attest the truth of this assertion." An American writer, also, speaking of our physical deterioration, says "We have violated law upon law until we stand amid ruins."

It is certain that women suffer more than men from defective phys ical training; and inasmuch as the usages of society impose certain restraints upon their free activity in public, it is evident that the evil effects of inactivity will not be obviated, unless special means are enployed, under the direction of teachers and parents, to improve and perfect the powers and development of the body, as well as of the mind.