ADDITIONAL EXERCISES IN PARSING.
GOLD, NOT GENUINE WEALTH.
Where, thy true treasure? Gold says, "not in me;"
And, "not in me," the Diamond. Gold is poor.
TRANSPOSED.
Where is thy true treasure? Gold says, "It is not in me;" and the
Diamond says, "It is not in me." Gold is poor.
SOURCE OF FRIENDSHIP.--DR. YOUNG.
Lorenzo, pride repress; nor hope to find
A friend, but what has found a friend in thee.
TRANSPOSED.
Lorenzo, repress thou pride; nor hope thou to find a friend, only in him
who has already found a friend in thee.
TRUE GREATNESS.--POPE.
Who noble ends by noble means obtains,
Or, failing, smiles in exile or in chains,
Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed
Like Socrates, that man is great indeed.
TRANSPOSED.
That man is great indeed, let him _to_ reign like unto good Aurelius, or
let him _to_ bleed like unto Socrates, who obtains noble ends by noble
means; or that man is great indeed, who, failing to obtain noble ends by
noble means, smiles in exile or in chains.
INVOCATION.--POLLOK.
Eternal Spirit! God of truth! to whom
All things seem as they are, inspire my song;
My eye unscale: me what is substance teach;
And shadow what, while I of things to come,
As past rehearsing, sing.
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