Fourth Reader: The Alexandra Readers

CONTENTS

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Dominion Hymn	The Duke of Argyle	9
The Moonlight Sonata	Anonymous	10
The Flight of the Birds	Edmund Clarence Stedman	15
The Minstrel Boy	Thomas Moore	16
The Good Saxon King	Charles Dickens	16
A Song	James Whitcomb Riley	21
Better than Gold	Mrs. J. M. Winton	22
The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal	Joseph Jacobs	23
A Canadian Boat-song	Thomas Moore	28
The Song Sparrow	Henry van Dyke	29
The Child of Urbino	Louise de la RamÉe	31
Destruction of Sennacherib’s Army	Lord Byron	40
The Arrow and the Song	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	41
The Battle of the Ants	Henry David Thoreau	42
The Curate and the Mulberry Tree	Thomas Love Peacock	45
Miriam’s Song	Thomas Moore	46
The Meeting of the Waters	Thomas Moore	47
The Battle of Balaklava	William Howard Russell	48
True Worth	Ben Jonson	51
Love of Country	Sir Walter Scott	52
Home and Country	James Montgomery	52
The Fatherland	James Russell Lowell	54
The Oak Tree and the Ivy	Eugene Field	55
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The Unnamed Lake	Frederick George Scott	253
The Hunter of the Prairies	William Cullen Bryant	255
Moses goes to the Fair	Oliver Goldsmith	257
Columbus	Joaquin Miller	262
Opportunity	Edward Rowland Sill	264
To-day	Thomas Carlyle	265
An Eruption of Vesuvius	Anonymous	266
The Sermon of St. Francis	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	269
The Greenwood Tree	William Shakespeare	271
Incident of the French Camp	Robert Browning	272
Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe	273
The Wonderful One-hoss Shay	Oliver Wendell Holmes	280
William Tell and his Son	Chambers’ Tracts	285
Saint Christopher	Helen Hunt Jackson	287
General Brock	Charles Sangster	292
An Iceberg	Richard Henry Dana	293
A Legend of Bregenz	Adelaide Anne Procter	295
Gluck’s Visitor	John Ruskin	300
Jacques Cartier	Thomas D’Arcy McGee	313
Bless the Lord, O my Soul	From the Book of Psalms	315
The Heroes of the Long Sault	Francis Parkman	317
The Marseillaise	Rouget De Lisle	325
The Watch on the Rhine	Max Schneckenburger	327
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