Morning Exercises for All the Year

'AND once again life opens wide the door
Through which shall pass ambition, youth and hope,
Into that harsher world, but little tried,

Where eager faith its tasks would meet and cope,
The tasks that stagger oft when youth seems far
From that fond hope that fastened to the star.

How fine a thing it is-this hope of youth,
Which bears the faithful heart that gives it room
Above all trivial things of time and place
On pinions to a sure success—not doom;
That sees no failures in the coming years
Whose eager feet press on-they know no fears.

The June time brings these fruitful days of life,
Repeating for each one the promise o'er,
Of rich fulfillment-harvests in the years,
The fields of time, in which our visions soar;
With roses to bloom and thorns but few,
May every worthy dream of youth come true.

And may no idle dreams usurp the mind,
No selfish visions stretch adown the years,
No loitering by waysides, seeming joy
To end in grief and penitential tears;
But on life's journey all along the way

Look Heavenward and for its guidance pray.

Sing: "Glad Vacation," from Hanson's Silvery Notes. Birthdays: Peter Paul Rubens, a famous Flemish painter, born at Siegen, Germany, June 29, 1577; died at Antwerp, Belgium, May 30, 1640.

John Quincy Adams Ward, an American sculptor, born in Urbana, Ohio, June 29, 1830; died in New York City, May 1, 1910.

Celia Thaxter, an American writer, born in Portsmouth, N. H., June 29, 1836; died August 27, 1894.

John Bach MacMaster, an American historian, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 29, 1852.

Butterflies in darting flight;

Or where willows lean and look
Down at others in the brook,
Frolic loud the stream within,
Every arm a splashing fin.

Where the thorny thickets bar,
There the sweetest berries are;
Where the shady banks make dim
Pebbly pools, shy trout swim;
Where the boughs are mossiest,
Builds the humming-bird a nest;-
There are haunts the rover seeks,
Touch of tan upon his cheeks,
And within his heart the joy
Known to no one but a boy.

All the world is set to rhyme
Now it is vacation-time.

-From "Book of Rhyme"

Sing: "Vacation's Coming" and "Vacation Song," from School Song Knapsack.

Advice of Robby Burns' Father, 120

Aeroplane, The, 184

Aesop, 39, 85

Agassiz, Louis J. R., 214

Aim, 166

Aim well! 166

Alcott, Louisa May, 79

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 67

Alger, Horatio, 112, 113

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,
113

All Fools' Day, 173, 174

All habits gather, 16

All-Hallow-Even, 57

All the world, 237

Allingham, William, 57
Allison, Joy, 88

Always vote for a principle, 153
Ambition, 64, 178

America, 31, 47, 74, 111, 139, 153,
216

America's Debt to Lafayette, 14
American in Europe, An, Van Dyke,
224

Amiability, 89

Amy Stewart, 169

Ancient Mariner, Coleridge, 142
And once again, 236

And we, to-day, 78

And what is so rare, 236

Andersen, Hans Christian, 174, 175

Andre, Major John, 32

Androclus and the Lion, 25
Angel, Andersen, 210

Angel of Peace, Holmes, 209
Angelo, Michael, 156
Anger, 165

Ant and the Cricket, The, 56
Antics in the Bird Room, 198
Anxious Leaf, The, 15

April! April! Are You Here, 174
April Morning, An, 180
Arbor Day, 186, 193

Arbor Day in Alabama, 147

Arbor Day in Arizona, 128

Arbor Day in Arkansas, 91
Arbor Day in California 157
Arbor Day in Connecticut, 193

Arbor Day in Florida, 106

Arbor Day in Georgia,81

Arbor Day in Illinois, 186
Arbor Day in Indiana, 55
Arbor Day in Kentucky, 176
Arbor Day in Louisiana, 132
Arbor Day in Maine, 197

Arbor Day in Maryland, 176

Arbor Day in Massachusetts, 193

Arbor Day in Michigan, 193

Arbor Day in Minnesota, 193

Arbor Day in Mississippi, 88

Arbor Day in Missouri, 176
Arbor Day in Montana, 201
Arbor Day in Nebraska, 189
Arbor Day in New Jersey, 189
Arbor Day in New Mexico, 161
Arbor Day in New York, 197
Arbor Day in North Dakota, 197
Arbor Day in Ohio, 183

Arbor Day in Oklahoma, 158
Arbor Day in Rhode Island, 205
Arbor Day in South Carolina, 75
Arbor Day in Texas, 147

Arbor Day in Utah, 183

Arbor Day in Vermont, 193

Arbor Day in West Virginia, 75
Ariosto, Ludovico, 15
Armond, Lizzie D., 167

Arnold, Benedict, 104, 105
Arnold, Matthew, 96
Arthur, Chester A., 34
Association, 220

Audubon, John James, 197, 198
Auld Lang Syne 33, 120
Austin, Alfred, 216

Away with Meloncholy, 49

Ax Grinding, Franklin, 179

Bacon, Francis, 118, 119, 157

Bad Company, 128

Bailey, P. J., 208

Balzac, Honore de, 207

Bancroft, George, 32, 33

Bangs, John Kendrick, 214

Barbara Frietchie, Whittier, 107, 224
Barefoot Boy, The, Whittier, 107
Barrie, James Matthew, 202
Bartholdi, Frederic A., 175
Barton, Clara, 52, 97, 206
Barye, Antoine Louis, 25

Battle Hymn of the Republic, 216
Battle of Bunker Hill, 228
Battle of New Orleans, 108
Battle Prayer, The, 190
Be a Man! 199

Be Careful What You Sow, 17
Be just and fear not, 71
Be kind and gentle, 122

Be noble! and the nobleness, 113

Be still, sad heart! 90

Beauregard, Pierre G. T., 166
Beautiful faces are those, 49
Beautiful Things, 49

Beauty, 212

Beaver Story, The, 56

Beck, M. W., 14

Boy Who Said "I Must," Marden,
22

Boy Who Wanted to Learn, The, 185
Boyhood of John Greenleaf Whit-
tier, The, 92

Boyhood of Washington, The, 146
Boys flying kites, 48
Bradford, William, 202
Bradstreet, Anne, 20
Brahms, Johannes, 200
Breton, Jules A., 196
Brewster, Sir David, 89
Brine, Mary D., 237
Brooks, Elbridge S., 183
Brooks, Phillips, 89, 90
Brown, Abbie Farwell, 154
Brown, Isabel Yeomans, 125
Brown, John, 202, 205
Browne, Charles F., 190
Brownies, The, 58

Browning, Elizabeth
156

Browning, Robert, 199

Bryan, William J., 162

Barrett,

154,

Bryant, William Cullen, 60, 61, 150,

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