Furlong, a furrow
long, or the length of
a furrow, 40 poles,
of a mile.

Track, to trace, to follow by marks or footsteps.

Then downward from the steep hill's edge 45
They tracked* the footmarks small:

And through the broken hawthorn hedge,
And by the long stone wall:

THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.-Pope.

ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744), the greatest poet of his time. His literary career began at the age of sixteen, when he published the Pastorals. His poems are characterised by a gracefulness of versification that is unequalled. Chief poems: Rape of the Lock, Essay on Man, Moral Epistles, The Dunciad, and translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

The Hon. WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER (1770-1834). His poems, though written in a simple and unaffected style, are marked by deep and genuine pathos.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803- ) is a distinguished essayist and journalist, and was born at Boston, U.S. In style and manner he greatly resembles Carlyle. This poem is taken from his essays on Society and Solitude.

Bard, a poet and singer of the ancient Celts.

MEN have done brave deeds,

And bards* have sung them well :

I of good George Nidiver

Now the tale will tell.