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150 T HE WORLD BEF ORE COLC MBUS.
. THE SEA-WEED.
11. The flying sea-bird mocked the floating dulse :
" Poor, wandering water-weed, where dost thou go,
Astray, upon the ocean's restless pulse 1"
It said , " I do not know.
l 2. " At a cliff's foot I clung, and was content,
Swayed to and fro by warm and shallow waves ;
A long the coast the storm -wind raging went,
And tore me from my caves.
13." I am the bitter herbage of that plain
" ' here no flocks pasture, and no man shall have
Homestead, nor any tenure there may gain
But for a gra ve,
14." .A worthless weed, a drifting, broken weed,
" That can I do in all this boundless sea 1
No creature of the universe has need,
Or any thought, of me."
15. Hith er and thit her, as the winds might blow,
The sen-weed float ed. Then a refluent tide
Swept it along to meet a galleon's prow-
" Land, ho !" Columbus cried.
ex -per-i-ment
spec-u-la-tion
cir'-eum-stan-ces
nav-i-ga-tio n
bar-ri-er
en-thu-si-asm
cru-sades'
bar-ba-ri-ans
sphere
th";"'ry
ri-dic -u-lous-ly
in-ad-e-quate
schoon-er
la-teen '
tri-ail~·lar
cum-brous
mar-i-time
rev-o-lu-tion
herb-age
rer-Iu-ent
W ORn EXERCISE:-
1. ) Iakc sentences containing the words kin, akin, kindred, and
kind, in various meanings.
2. Give the meaning of the words creed, credible, credulous, credit,
and creditor, showing the connection between them.
3. Give a list of words with the prefix en- , used in vario us meanin gs,
as enrich.
F OT N OTES, see page eC4.