TRIPLE TIME RHYTHMUS.

AND there lay the | steed with his | nostril all | wide, |
But through it there | rolled not the | breath of his | pride: |
And the foam of his | gasping lay | white on the | turf, |
And cold as the | spray of the | rock beating | surf. |77|77|
And there lay the | rider distorted and | pale, |

With the dew on his | brow, and the | rust on his | mail
And the tents were all | silent, the | banners a|lone, |
The lances un lifted, the | trumpet un blown. |77|97|

When examples of versification are correctly scored, they should be read simultaneously with the rhythmic master to the beating of time, and then read as a solo by the pupil, while the time of the measures is accurately marked as a guide to the voice. After the mind is imbued with the rhythmic movement of various kinds of verse with rhyme, and the vocal organs are trained to their performance, he may proceed.

2. To score blank verse with its imperfect feet, similar to this example from Milton.

| Seasons return;

Thus, with the year |

but not to | me re turns |

| Day, ¦ ♬ or the | sweet approach of | even, or, | morn, |
Or sight of vernal | bloom, or summer's rose,

Or flocks or | herds or human | face divine: |
But cloud in stead, 7 | and | ever-|during | dark |
Sur rounds me, | ♬ from the | cheerful | ways of | men |
| Cut off; and for the | book of | knowledge | fair, |
Presented with an universal | blank

Of | nature's | works, to me expunged and | razed, |
And wisdom at one entrance | quite | shut | out. |77|
So much the rather thou, celestial | light! |

[Shine | inward; 77 and the mind, through all her powers

Irradiate: there | plant | eyes; all | mist from thence | | Purge and dis perse, |77| that I may | see and | tell | Of things in visible to mortal sight. 7777771

When such examples are correctly scored, he will read them simultaneously with the master, while the time is accurately marked by the hand as a guide

to the voice; and then read them alone, until he is able to perceive and execute the rhythmus of versification. He will now introduce the cæsural and rhetorical pauses, either as constituents or as whole measures, as the case may be, in the examples he has previously scored, and read them with and without the guidance of his tutor's voice, but under his superintendance. He will now scan the relative quantities of the syllables of several examples, and also denote the duration of the rests, or pauses; which will give a correct knowledge of the proportionate duration of syllables; and he must practically illustrate those quantities. The rhythmus of verse being well known he can now proceed

3. To score declamatory verse and poetic prose; such as Shakspeare's oratory, Ossian, The Psalms, &c. When the mind and voice are drilled to this, he may proceed

4 To score common prose, training his mind and voice to the perception and execution of its rhythmus. As an illustration of scored prose, the Burial Service is subjoined.

THE ORDER FOR THE BURIAL

OF

THE DEAD.

¶ The Priest and Clerks meeting the corpse at the entrance of the church-yard and going before it, either into the Church, or towards the grave, shall say, or sing,

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I AM the resurrection | and the | life, saith the Lord: |77| he that believeth in me though he were | dead, yet shall he | live: |77|7 and | whosoever | liveth | and believeth in | me | shall never die. |77|77| ST JOHN Xi. 25, 26.

ין

I know that my Redeemer | liveth, and that he shall stand at the | latter | day up on the though after my skin | worms

earth. destroy

And

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this body, | yet in my | flesh |▾ shall |

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I see God: | whom I shall see for my self, |7

and mine | eyes shall be hold, and not another. JOB Xix. 25, 26, 27.

| יין יין

| We brought | nothing | into this | world, | and it is certain we can | carry | nothing | out. |77|7 The Lord gave, and the | Lord hath | taken

blessed | be the |
blessed | be the name of the Lord.

1 TIM. vi. 7. JOB i. 21.

After they are come into the Church, shall be read one or both of these Psalms following.

Dixi, Custodiam. Psalm xXXIX.

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I SAID, I will take

heed to my ways: | | |

that I offend not | in my

tongue. | 77 |

| I will | keep my | mouth | as it | were with a | bridle: while the ungodly is | in my | sight. |77|

I held my | tongue, and | spake | nothing: | I kept | silence, yea, | even from | good words: | but it was | pain and | grief to me. |79|

My heart was | hot with in me, | and | while I

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was thus musing the fire | kindled: | and at the last I spake with my tongue; |

| Lord, | let me | know mine | end, | and the | number of my days: that | I may be | certified | how long I have to | live. |77|

Behold, thou hast | made my | days | as

it were a span | long: | and | mine | age | 7 is |

even as | nothing | in respect of | thee; | and |

every | man | living is altogether | |

verily every |

| וי| .vanity