'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: "Vacation Time," from New Common-School Song Book.
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.
30 VACATION
"Vacation is the time for fun!"
All girls and boys are saying
When schools and books grow wearisome, And hearts are ripe for playing.
VACATION-TIME
ALL the world is set to rhyme Now it is vacation-time, And a swelling flood of joy Brims the heart of every boy. No more rote and no more rule, No more staying after school When the dreamy brain forgets Tiresome tasks the master sets; Nothing but to play and play Through an endless holiday.
Morn or afternoon, may all Swing the bat and catch the ball; Nimble-footed, race and run Through the meadows in the sun,
Chasing winged scraps of light,
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.
A cheerful temper, 165
A glad New Year, 104
A great nation is made, 17
A gush of bird song, 180
A man of words, 143
A sense of an earnest will, 227
A soft answer, 176
A thing is worth, 131
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, Frederio 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
Bob White, 188
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 44, 199 Bonar, Horatius, 51, 211 Bonheur, Rosa, 165
Book, The, Forman, 126 Books, 154, 228
Books are men, 154 Books are yours, 178 Boone, Daniel, 134 Booth, Edwin Thomas, 68 Booth, John Wilkes, 69 Boughton, George H., 117
Boy Who Became Famous, A, 121 Boy Who Recommended Himself,
Boy Who Said "I Must," Marden, 22
Boy Who Wanted to Learn, The, 185 Boyhood of John Greenleaf Whit-
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
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