One port, methought, alike they sought, 25 One purpose hold where’er they fare,— O bounding breeze, O rushing seas! At last, at last, unite them there. * * * * * =THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS.= This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main,— The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, 5 And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, 10 Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed— Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year beheld the silent toil 15 That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year’s dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, 20 Stretched in his last-found home and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born 25 Than ever Triton blew from wreathèd horn! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:— Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul. As the swift seasons roll! 30 Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea! 35 * * * * * =SELECTIONS FOR MEMORIZATION= _Prescribed by the Department of Education, in the Province of Ontario._ (Extract from Circular 58). =Junior Public School Diploma.= _The High School Reader._ The Knights’ Chorus, p. 70; The Evening Wind, p. 93; The Return of the Swallows, p. 111; The Eternal Goodness, p. 118; Sir Galahad, p. 182; On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, p. 189; A Wood Lyric, p. 191. _Narrative and Lyric Poems._ _Gray_: Elegy, written in a Country Churchyard; _Mrs. Browning_: My Kate; _Tennyson_: Morte d’Arthur, ll. 113-142, “Then spoke King Arthur breathing heavily. . . so flashed and fell the brand Excalibur,” ll. 240-255, “The old order changeth. . . about the feet of God.” =Senior Public School Diploma, Senior High School Entrance,= =and Entrance into the Model Schools.=