Ontario Readers Third Book, The

<h2><SPAN name="Break" id="Break"></SPAN>BREAK, BREAK, BREAK</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span>Break, break, break,<br/></span> <span class="i1">On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!<br/></span> <span>And I would that my tongue could utter<br/></span> <span class="i1">The thoughts that arise in me.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>O well for the fisherman's boy,<br/></span> <span class="i1">That he shouts with his sister at play!<br/></span> <span>O well for the sailor lad,<br/></span> <span class="i1">That he sings in his boat on the bay!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>And the stately ships go on<br/></span> <span class="i1">To their haven under the hill;<br/></span> <span>But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,<br/></span> <span class="i1">And the sound of a voice that is still!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>Break, break, break,<br/></span> <span class="i1">At the foot of thy crags, O Sea!<br/></span> <span>But the tender grace of a day that is dead<br/></span> <span class="i1">Will never come back to me.<br/></span></div> </div> <p class="citation"><span class="smcap">Tennyson</span></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p>Try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admired: they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely and worship meanly.</p> <p class="citation"><span class="smcap">Thackeray</span></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />