For Memorizing

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The first that the general saw were the groups

Of stragglers, and then the retreating troops;
What was done? what to do? a glance told him both.
Then striking his spurs with a terrible oath,

He dashed down the line, 'mid a storm of huzzas,

And the wave of retreat check'd its course there, because
The sight of the master compelled it to pause.

With foam and with dust the black charger was gray;

By the flash of his eye, and the red nostril's play

He seemed to the whole great army to say,

"I have brought you Sheridan all the way

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From Winchester down, to save the day."

Hurrah! hurrah for Sheridan!

Hurrah! hurrah for horse and man!
And when their statues are placed on high,
Under the dome of the Union sky,
The American soldier's Temple of Fame,
There with the glorious general's name

Be it said, in letters both bold and bright:

Here is the steed that saved the day
By carrying Sheridan into the fight,
From Winchester- twenty miles away!"

For Memorizing

Flashed all their sabers bare,
Flashed as they turned in air,
Sab'ring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while

All the world wondered:

Plunged in the battery smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Cassock and Russian

Reeled from the saber stroke,

Shattered and sundered.

Then they rode back, but not-
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,

Cannon behind them

Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,

They that had fought so well

Came through the jaws of Death

Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,

Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!

All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made!
Honor the Light Brigade,

Noble six hundred!

-Tennyson.

Thoughts for Memorizing.

ACTION.

Of every noble action the intent

Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.

- Beaumont and Fletcher.

Think that day lost whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand no noble action done.

What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.

- Selected.

- Burns.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.- Carlyle.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.-Bishop Cumberland.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.-Em

We must not stint our necessary actions in the fear to cope malicious censurers.-Shakespeare.

For Memorizing

Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not act.-Sophocles.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.-Locke.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.- Lowell.

What I have done was not for praise of men;

Then let me not be moved if now and then

My actions, thoughts expressed by tongue or pen,
Some one offend; oh let me never fear

If only right and just I in God's eyes appear.

- W. J. Meredith.

The thing that chiefly concerns a man is not whether he succeed or fail, but that he do his whole duty according to the lights vouchsafed him until he die.- Ian McLaren. (Adapted).

BOOKS.

Laws die, books never.-Lytton.

Books are embalmed minds.- Bovee.

Books - Lighthouses built on the sea of time.- Whipple.

There is no past so long as books live.- Lytton.

Hark, the world so loud and they, the movers of the world, so still.

- Lytton. A taste for books is the pleasure and glory of my life. I would not ex. change it for the glory of the Indies.-- Gibbon.

Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

- Denham.

That is a good book that is opened with expectation and closed with profit.- Alcott.