the salmon face when he goes down a stream? Why? 7. What happened to the fish that snapped at the angleworm? 8. What made the difference in the taste of the water as the young salmon went down, and where did he find himself at last? How long did he remain there? 9. What is "glacier-water"? What is a common impulse"? 10. What made the salmon What were they going to do?

caught and canned. 12. Describe the laying of the eggs. You will be interested in reading "The Story of a Stone," in Dr. Jordan's "Science Sketches"; also his little book "Matka and Kotik," the story of two seals.

THE SONG OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE

SIDNEY LANIER

[Far up in the Blue Ridge Mountains, near the northern boundary of Georgia, rises the Chattahoochee River. Through its upper course, in Habersham County, it is a turbulent stream, dashing over stones and through mountain gorges, leaping down in waterfalls, split at times by 5 the rocks into several channels, but soon rushing together again and growing broader and deeper as it flows along. Its course leads then through the wooded valleys of Hall and other counties, past villages and towns, until on the western border of the state it spreads out into the plains, 10 furnishes power for scores of mills, and empties into the Apalachicola River, on the edge of Florida, through which it flows on into the Gulf of Mexico.

Lanier knew the Chattahoochee well and loved it. Dancing along among the hills and through the valleys, 15 it seemed to him almost human; and he fancied that as it flowed, the rushes and ferns and berries that dipped into it or that reached across its way, the trees that bent over. it, and the stones that stood before it, were trying to stop it and make it play with them. But there was 20 work for the river to do. There were mills to turn, and fields to water, and beyond all these was ever heard the call of the sea.

The great beauty of the poem lies in the music of its verse. It is not only a poem; it is a song. Think of the river as singing it while it flows along.

The life of Lanier is told in the Literary Readers, 5 Book Five, page 278.]

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Out of the hills of Habersham,
Down the valleys of Hall,

I hurry amain to reach the plain,
Run the rapid and leap the fall,
Split at the rock and together again,
Accept my bed, or narrow or wide,
And flee from folly on every side,
With a lover's pain to attain the plain
Far from the hills of Habersham,

Far from the valleys of Hall.

All down the hills of Habersham,
All through the valleys of Hall,
The rushes cried, "Abide, abide,"

The willful water-weeds held me thrall,

The laving laurel turned my tide,

The ferns and the fondling grass said, "Stay,"

The dewberry dipped for to work delay,

And the little reeds sighed, "Abide, abide,

Here in the hills of Habersham,

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Here in the valleys of Hall."

High o'er the hills of Habersham,
Veiling the valleys of Hall,
The hickory told me manifold

Fair tales of shade, the poplar tall
Wrought me her shadowy self to hold,

The chestnut, the oak, the walnut, the pine,
O'erleaning, with flickering meaning and sign,

Said, "Pass not, so cold, these manifold
Deep shades of the hills of Habersham,
These glades in the valleys of Hall."

And oft in the hills of Habersham,
And oft in the valleys of Hall

The white quartz shone and the smooth brook stone

Did bar me of passage with friendly brawl,

And many a luminous jewel lone

Crystal clear or acloud with mist,

Ruby, garnet, and amethyst

Made lures with the lights of streaming stone
In the clefts of the hills of Habersham,

In the beds of the valleys of Hall.

But oh, not the hills of Habersham,

And oh, not the valleys of Hall

Avail: I am fain for to water the plain.
Downward the voices of Duty call

Downward, to toil and be mixed with the main,
The dry fields burn, and the mills are to turn,

And a myriad flowers mortally yearn,
And the lordly main from beyond the plain
Calls o'er the hills of Habersham,

Calls through the valleys of Hall.

QUESTIONS AND HELPS

1. Tell the story of Lanier's life (see Literary Readers, Book Five). 2. Where is the Chattahoochee River? Describe its course and locate it upon a map. 3. What and where are Habersham and Hall? 4. Put into simpler words "Accept my bed, or narrow or wide." 5. What is meant by "flee from folly"? (Remember that as the stream flows on, it seems to be thinking all the time of the work it has to do.) 6. Explain line 13, page 378. (The river is in love with its work and impatient to reach the plain where duty calls it.)

7. Notice how much is added to the music of the verse by repeating the sounds at the beginning of words or syllables, as "hills of Habersham," "run the rapid," "flee from folly." This is called alliteration (ăl lit er a'shon). What examples of it do you find in the second stanza? the third? the fourth? the fifth? 8. Explain “held me thrall," "laving laurel," "fondling grass,' ""for to work delay." (In Old English it was customary to use "for to" where now we use only "to.") Find another example of this in the poem.

9. What "veiled the valleys" in line 2, page 379? 10. Express in simpler words "Wrought me her shadowy self to hold," "Pass not, so cold." Explain "flickering meaning." 11. Describe white quartz, ruby, garnet, amethyst. 12. “Bar me of passage" is an old English form for "bar my passage.' Do you think the poem is better or worse for using these