OIT.

Coit, exploit, adroit, etc. Allowable rhymes, white, light, might, sight, mite, etc.

OKE.

Broke, choke, smoke, spoke, stroke, yoke, bespoke, invoke, provoke, revoke, etc. Perfect rhymes, choak, cloak, oak, soak, stroke, Allowable rhymes, stock, mock, etc., buck, luck, etc., talk, walk, etc., look, book, etc. See OCK and OOK. OL.

Loll, doll, droll, extol, capitol, etc. Allowable rhymes, all, ball, etc., bawl, etc., hole, mole, etc., dull, mull, etc.

Brood, mood, food, rood, etc. Nearly perfect rhymes, the preferits and participles of verbs in oo, as cooed, wooed, etc. Allowable rhymes, wood, good, hood, stood, withstood, understood, brotherhood, livelihood, likelihood, neighborhood, widowhood, etc., blood, flood, etc., feud, illude, habitude, etc., the preferits and participles of verbs in ue and ew, as brewed, strewed, etc., imbued, subdued, etc., bud, mud, etc., and the three apostrophized auxiliaries, would, could, should, pronounced wou'd, cou'd, show'd, etc., ode, code, and the preferits and participles of verbs in ow, as crowed, rowed, etc., also nod, hod, etc. OOF.

Hoof, proof, roof, woof, aloof, disproof, reproof, behoof. Allowable rhymes, huff, ruff, rough, enough, etc., off, scoff, etc.

OOK.

Book, brook, cook, crook, hook, look, rook, shook, took, mistook, undertook, forsook, betook. Allowable rhymes, puke, fluke, etc., duck, luck, etc., broke, spoke, etc.

OOL.

Cool, fool, pool, school, stool, tool, befool. Allowable rhymes, pule, rule, etc., dull, gull, etc., bull, pull, etc., pole, hole, etc.

Boor, poor, moor, etc. Perfect rhymes, tour, amour, paramour, contour. Allowable rhymes, bore, pore, etc.. pure, sure, etc., your, pour, etc., door, floor, etc., bur, cur, etc., sir, stir, etc. OOSE.

Goose, loose, etc. Nearly perfect rhymes, the nouns deuce, use, etc., profuse, seance. Allowable rhymes, dose, jocose, globose, etc., moss, toss, etc., us, pus, thus, etc.

Adopt rhymes perfectly with the preterits and participles of verbs in op, as hopped, lopped, etc. Allowable rhymes, the preferits and participles of verbs in ope, upe, oop, and up, as coped, duped, hooped, cupped, etc.

OR.

Or, for, creditor, counsellor, confessor, competitor, emperor, ancestor, ambassador, progenitor, conspirator, successor, conqueror, governor, abbor, metaphor, bachelor, senator, etc., and every word in or, having the accent on the last, or last syllable but two, as abhor, orator, etc. Allowable rhymes, bore, tore, etc., boar, hoar, etc., pure, endure, etc., pur, demur, etc., stir, sir, etc.

ORCH

Scorch, torch, etc. Allowable rhymes, birch, smirch, church, etc., porch, etc. ORCE.

Force, divorce, enforce, perforce, cic. Perfect rhymes, corse, coarse, hoarse, course, discourse, recourse, intercourse, source, resource, etc. Allowable rhymes, worse, purse, etc., horse, endorse, etc.

ORD.

Cord, lord, record, accord, abhorred. Allowable rhymes, hoard, board, aboard, ford, afford, sword, etc., word, surd, bird, etc., and the preferils and participles of verbs in ore, ur, and ir, as bored, incurred, stirred, ORE.

etc.

Bore, core, gore, lore, more, ore, pore, score, shore, snore, sore, store, swore, tore, wore, adore, afore, ashore, deplore, explore, implore, restore, forbore, forswore, heretofore, hellebore, sycamore. Perfect rhymes, boar, gore, oar, roar, soar, four, door, floor, end o'er for over. Allowable rhymes, hour, sour, etc., pow'r for power, show'r for shower, etc., bur, cur, etc., poor, your, etc., abhor, orator, senator, etc. See ORGE.

OOR and OR.

Close, dose, hose, pose, chose, glose, froze, nose, prose, those, rose, compose, depose, disclose, dispose, discompose, expose, impose, inclose, interpose, oppose, propose, recompose, repose, suppose, transpose, arose, presuppose, foreclose, etc., and the plurals of nouns and apostrophized preterits and participles of verbs in ow, oe, o, etc., as rows, glows, foes, goes, etc. Allowable rhymes, the verbs choose, lose, etc., and the plurals of nouns and third persons singular of verbs in ow, rhyming with now, as cows, and the word buzz.

Cost, frost, lost, accost, etc., and the preterits and participles of woras in oss, as mossed, embossed, etc., the verb exhaust, and the noun holocaust. Allowable rhymes, ghost, host, post, compost, most, etc., coast, boast, toast, etc., bust, must, etc., roost, and the preterits and participles of verbs in oose, as loosed, etc. OT, see AT.

Clot, cot, blot, got, hot, jot, lot, knot, not, plot, pot, scot, shot, sot, spot, apricot, trot, rot, grot, begot, forgot, allot, besot, complot, counterplot. Allowable rhymes, note, vote, etc., boat, coat, etc., but, cut, etc. OTCH.

Botch, notch, etc. Perfect rhyme, watch. Allowable rhymes, much, such, etc. OTE.

Note, vote, mote, quote, rote, wrote, smote, denote, promote, remote, devote, anecdote, antidote, etc. Perfect rhymes, boat, coat, bloat, doat, float, gloat, goat, oat, overfloat, afloat, throat, moat. Allowable rhymes, bout, flout, etc., hot, cot, etc., but, cut, etc., boot, hoot, etc.

toned, moaned, sunned, etc., consequently fund, refund, etc., and wound (a hurt), pronounced woond. OUNG, see UNG. OUNT.

Count, mount, fount, amount, dismount, remount, surmount, account, discount, miscount. Allowable rhymes, want, font, don't, won't,

etc.

OUP, see OOP. OUR.

Hour, lour, sour, our, scour, deilour, devour, etc., rhymes perfectly with bower, cower, flower, power shower, tower, etc., pronounced bow'r, tow'r, etc. Allowable rhymes, bore, more, roar, pour, tour, moor, poor, etc., pure, sure, etc., sir, stir, bur, cur, etc.

OURGE, see URGE. OURNE, see ORN and URN. OURS.

Ours rhymes perfectly with the plurals of nouns and third persons present of verbs in our, and ower, as hours, scours, deflours, bowers, showers, etc. Allowable rhymes, the plurals of nouns and third persons present of verbs in oor and ure, as boors, moors, etc., cures, endures, OURS.

etc.

Yours rhymes perfectly with the plurals of nouns and third persons present of verbs in ure, as cures, endures, etc. Allowable rhymes, ours, and its perfect rhymes and the plurals of nouns and third persons present of verbs in oor, ore, and ur, as boors, moors, etc., shores, pores, etc., burs, slurs, stirs, etc.

OURSE, see ORCE.

OURT, see ORT.
OURTH, see ORTH.
OUS, see US.

OUS, pronounced OUCE

House, mouse, chonse, etc. Allowable rhymes, the nouns close, dose, jocose, etc., deuce, use, produce, etc., us, thus, etc., moose, and the

noun noose.

Bout, stout, out, clout, pont, gout, grout, rout, scout, shout, snout, spout, stout, sprout, trout, about, cevout, without, throughout, etc., Allowrhymes perfectly with doubt, redoubt, misdoubt, drought, etc. able rhymes, note, vote, etc., boat, coat, etc., lute, suit, etc., got, not, etc., nut, shut, hoot, boot, etc. OUTH. Mouth, south, when nouns have the th sharp, The verbs to mouth, to south, may allowably rhyme with booth, smooth, etc., which see. OW, soundea OU.

Now, bow, how, mow, cow, brow, plow, sow, vow, prow, avow, allow, disallow, endow, etc. Perfect rhymes, bough, plough, slough (mire), etc., thou. Allowable rhymes, go, no, blow, sow, etc.

OW, sounded OWE.

Blow, stow, crow, bow, flow, glow, grow, know, low, mow, row, show, sow, strow, stow, slow, snow, throw, trow, below, bestow, foreknow, outgrow, overgrow, overflow, overthrow, reflow, foreshow, etc. Perfect rhymes, go, no, toe, foe, owe, wo, oh, so, lo, though, hoe, ho, ago, forego, undergo, dough, roe, sloe, and the verb to sew (with the needle). Allowable rhymes, now, cow, vow, do, etc. See the last article. OWL, see OLE.

Cowl, growl, owl, fowl, howl, prowl, etc. Perfect rhymes, scowl, foul, etc. Allowable rhymes, bowl, soul, Loal, goal, etc., dull, gull, etc. OWN, see ONE.

Brown, town, clown, crown, down, drown, frown, grown, adown, renown, embrown, etc. Perfect rhyme, noun. Allowable rhymes, tone, bone, moan, own, and the participles, thrown, shown, blown, etc. OWSE, see OUSE.

Blouse. Perfect rhymes, brouse, trouse, rouse, sponse, carouse, souse, espouse, the verbs to house, mouse, etc., and the plurals of nouns and third persons, present tense, of verbs in ow, as brows, allows, etc. Allowable rhymes, hose, those, to dose, etc.

OX.

Ox, box, fox, equinox, orthodox, heterodox, etc. Perfect rhymes, the plurals of nouns and third persons present of verbs in ock, as locks, stocks, etc. Allowable rhymes, the plurals of nouns, and third persons present of verbs in oke, oak, and uck, as strokes, oaks, cloaks, sucks, ΟΥ.

etc.

Boy, buoy, coy, employ, cloy, joy, toy, alloy, annoy, convoy, decoy, destroy, enjoy, employ.

OZE, OSE.

UB.

Cub, club, dub, drub, grub, rub, saub, shrub, tub. Allowable rhymes, cube, tube, etc., cob, rob, etc. UBE.

Cube, tube. Allowable rhymes, cib, cub, etc.

UCE.

Truce, sluice, spruce, dence, conduce, deduce, induce, introduce, produce, seduce, traduce, juice, reduce, etc., rhyme perfectly with the nouns use, abuse, profuse, abstruse, disuse, excuse, misuse, obtuse, recluse.

UCH, see UTCH. UCK.

Buck, Inck, pluck, suck, struck, tuck, truck, duck. Allowable rhymes, puke, duke, etc., look, took, etc.

Bud, send, stud, mud, cud, rhyme perfectly with blood and flood. Allowable rhymes, good, hood, etc., rood, food, etc., beatitude, latitude. UDE.

Rude, crude, prude, allude, conclude, delude, elude, exclude, exude, include, intrude, obtrude, seclude, altitude, fortitude, gratitude, interJude, latitude, longitude, magnitude, multitude, solicitude, solitude, vicissitude, aptitude, habitude, ingratitude, inaptitude, lassitude, plenitude, promptitude, servitude, similitude, etc. Perfect rhymes, lead, feud, etc., and the preterits and participles of verbs in ew, as stewed, viewed, etc. Allowable rhymes, bud, cud, etc., good, hood, blood, flood, etc. UDGE.

Judge, drudge, grudge, trudge, adjudge, prejudge.

UE, see EW. UFF.

Cull, dull. gull, hull, lnll, mull, null, trull, skull, annul, disannul. Allowable rhymes, fool, tool, etc., wool, bull, pull, full, bountiful, fanciful, sorrowful, dutiful, merciful, wonderful, worshipful, and every word ending in ful, having the accent on the antepenultimate syllable. ULE.

Mule, pule, yule, rule, overrule, ridicule, misrule. Allowable rhymes, cull, dull, wool, full, bountiful, etc. See the last article. ULGE.

Crum, drum, grum, gum, hum, mum, scum, plum, stum, sum, swum, .thrum. Perfect rhymes, thumb, dumb, succumb, come, become, overcome, burthensome, cumbersome, frolicsome, humorsome, quarrelsome, troublesome, martyrdom, christendom. Allowable rhymes, fume, plume, rheum, and room, doom, tomb, hecatomb.

UME, Fume, plume, assume, consume, perfume, resume, presume, deplume. UMP.

Bump, pump, jump, lump, plump, trump, stump, rump, thump. UN.

Dun, gun, nun, pun, run, sun, shun, tun, stun, spun, begun. Perfect rhymes, son, won, ton, done, one, none, undone. Allowable rhymes, on, gone, etc., tune, prune, etc. See ON. UNCE

Dunce, once, etc. Allowable rhyme, sconce.

UNCH.

Bunch, punch, hunch, lunch, munch.
UND.

Fund, refund. Perfect rhymes, the preterits and participles of verbs in un, as shunned, etc. UNE.

June, rune, untune, jejune, prune, importune, etc. Nearly perfect rhymes, moon, soon, etc." Allowable rhymes, bun, dun, etc. UNG.

Clung, dung, flung, hung, rung, strung, sung, sprung, slung, stung, swung, unsung. Perfect rhymes, young, tongue, among. Allowable rhymes, song, long, etc.

UR.

Blur, cur, bur, fur, slur, spur, concur, demur, incur. Perfect rhymes, sir, stir. Nearly perfect rhymes, fir, etc. Allowable rhymes, pore, oar. URB.

Curb, disturb. Nearly perfect rhymes, verb, herb, etc. Allowable rhyme, orb. URCH. Church, lurch, birch. Nearly perfect rhymes, perch, search. Allowable rhyme, porch. URD.

Curd, absurd. Perfect rhymes, bird, word, and the preterits and participles of verbs in ur, as spurred. Allowable rhymes, board, ford, cord, lord, etc., and the preterits and participles of verbs in ore, oar, and or, as gored, oared, abhorred, etc., also the preterits and participles of verbs in ure, as cured, immured, etc. See ORD.

URE.

Cure, pure, dure, lure, sure, adjure, allure, assure, demure, conjure, endure, manure, enure, insure, immature, immure, mature, obscure, procure, secure, adjure, calenture, coverture, epicure, investiture, forfeiture, furniture, minature, overture, portraiture, primogeniture, temperature. Allowable rhymes, poor, moor, power, sour, etc., cur, bur, URF.

Turf, scurf, etc.

URGE.

Purge, urge, surge, scourge. Perfect rhymes, verge, diverge, etc. Allowable rhymes, gorge, George, etc., forge, etc. URK. Lurk, Turk. Perfect rhyme, work. Nearly perfect rhymes, irk, jerk, perk. URL, see IRL. Churl, curl, furl, hurl, purl, uncurl, unfurl. Nearly perfect rhymes, girl, twirl, etc., pearl, etc. URN. Burn, churn, spurn, turn, urn, return, overturn. Perfect rhymes, sojourn, adjourn, rejourn. URSE. Nurse.curse, purse, accurse, disburse, imburse, reimburse. Perfect rhyme, worse. Allowable rhymes, coarse, corse, force, verse, disperse, horse, etc.

URST. Burst, curst, accurst, etc. Perfect rhymes, thirst, worst, first. URT. Blurt, hurt, spurt. Perfect rhymes, dirt, shirt, flirt, squirt, etc. Allowable rhymes, port, court, short, snort, etc. US,

Us, thus, buss, truss, discuss, incubus, overplus, amorous, boisterous, clamorous, credulous, dangerous, degenerous, generous, emulous, fabulous, frivolous, hazardous, idolatrous, infamous, miraculous, mischievous, mountainous, mutinous, necessitous, numerous, ominous, perilous, poisonous, populous, prosperous, ridiculous, riotous, ruinous, scandalous, scrupulous, sedulous, traitorous, treacherous, tyrannons, venomous, vigorous, villainous, adventurous, adulterous, ambiguous, blasphemous, dolorous, fortuitons, sonorous, gluttonous, gratuitous, incredulous, lecherous, libidinous, magnanimous, obstreperous, odo riferous, ponderous, ravenous, rigorous, slanderous, solicitous, timorous, valorous, unanimous, calamitous. Allowable rhymes, the nouns use, abuse, diffuse, excuse, the verb to Icose, and the nouns, goose, deuce, juice, truce, etc., close, dose, house, mouse, etc.

USE, with the s pure.

The nouns use, disuse, abuse, deuce, trúce. Perfect rhymes, the verb to loose, the nouns, goose, noose, moose. Allowable rhymes, us, thus, buss, etc.

Bust, crust, dust, just, must, lust, rust, thrust, trust, adjust, adust, disgust, distrust, intrust, mistrust, robust, unjust. Perfect rhymes, the preterits and participles of verbs in uss, as trussed, discussed, etc. UT.

But, butt, cut, hut, gut, glut, jut. nut, shut, strut, englut, rut, scnt, slut, smut, abut. Perfect rhyme, soot. Allowable rhymes, boot, etc., dispute, etc., boat, etc.

Hutch, crutch, Dutch.

UTCH.
Perfect rhymes, much, such, touch, etc.
UTE.

Brute, lute, flute, mute, acute, compute, confute dispute, dilute, depute. impute, minute, pollute, refute, repute, salute, absolute, attribute, constitute, destitute, dissolute, execute, institute, irresolute, persecute, prosecute, prostitute, resolute, substitute. Perfect rhymes, fruit, recruit, etc. Allowable rhymes, boot, etc., boat, etc., note, etc., hut, etc. UX.

Flux, reflux, etc. Perfect rhymes, the plurals of nouns and third persons of verbs in uck, as ducks, trucks, etc. Allowable rhymes, the plurals of nouns and third persons of verbs in ook, uke, oak, etc., us cooks, pukes, oaks, etc.

Y, see 1E.

ETERNAL JUSTICE.

BY CHARLES MACKAY.

HE man is thought a knave or fool,

Or bigot plotting crime,

Who, for the advancement of his race,
Is wiser than his time.

For him the hemlock shall distill,
For him the axe be bared;
For him the gibbet shall be built;
For him the stake prepared:

Him shall the scorn and wrath of men
Pursue with deadly aim;
And malice, envy, spite, and lies,
Shall desecrate his name.

But truth shall conquer at the last,
For round and round we run,
And ever the right comes uppermost
And ever is justice done.

Pace through thy cell, old Socrates,

Cheerily to and fro;

Trust to the impulse of thy soul

And let the poison flow.

They may shatter to earth the lamp of clay,

That holds a light divine,

But they cannot quench the fire of thought
By any such deadly wine;

They cannot blot thy spoken words
From the memory of man,

By all the poison ever was brewed
Since time its course began.
To-day abhorred, to-morrow adored,
So round and round we run,
And ever the truth comes uppermost,
And ever is justice done.

Plod in thy grave, gray Anchorite:

Be wiser than thy peers;

Augment the range of human power,

And trust to coming years.

They may call thee wizard, and monk accursed,

And load thee with dispraise;

Thou wert born five hundred years too soon

For the comfort of thy days.

But not too soon for human kind:

Time hath reward in store;
And the demons of our sires become
The saints that we adore.

The blind can see, the slave is lord;

So round and round we run

And ever the wrong is proved to be wrong,
And ever is justice done.

Keep, Galileo, to thy thought,

And nerve thy soul to bear;

They may gloat over the senseless words they wring From the pangs of thy despair:

They may veil their eyes, but they cannot hide,

The sun's meridian glow;

The heel of a priest may tread thee down,
And a tyrant work thee woe;

But never a truth has been destroyed:

They may curse it and call it a crime;
Pervert and betray, or slander and slay
Its teachers for a time.

But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.

And live there now such men as these -
With thoughts like the great of old?
Many have died in their misery,
And left their thought untold.

And many live, and are ranked as mad,
And placed in the cold world's ban,
For sending their bright far-seeing souls
Three centuries in the van;
They toil in penury and grief,

Unknown, if not maligned;
Forlorn, forlorn, bearing the scorn

Of the meanest of mankind;

But yet the world goes round and round
And the genial seasons run,

And ever the truth comes uppermost,
And ever is justice done.

There are the hopes that, one by one,
Died even as we gave them birth;
The dreams that passed ere well begun,
Too dear, too beautiful for earth.
The aspirations, strong of wing,
Aiming at heights we could not reach;
The songs we tried in vain to sing;
Thoughts too vast for human speech;
Thou hast them all, Hereafter! Thou
Shalt keep them safely till that hour
When, with God's seal on heart and brow,
We claim them in immortal power!

HEREAFTER.*

LAND beyond the setting sun!

O realm more fair than poet's dream! How clear thy silvery streamlets run,

How bright thy golden glories gleam!

Earth holds no counterpart of thine;
The dark-browed Orient, jewel-crowned,
Pales, as she bows before thy shrine,
Shrouded in mystery so profound.

The dazzling North, the stately West,

Whose rivers flow from mount to sea; The South, flower-wreathed in languid rest, What are they all compared with thee? All lands, all realms beneath yon dome, Where God's own hand hath hung the stars, To thee with humblest homage come, O world beyond the crystal bars! Thou blest hereafter! Mortal tongue Hath striven in vain thy speech to learn, And fancy wanders, lost among

The flowery paths for which we yearn.

But well we know, that fair and bright
Far beyond human ken or dream,
Too glorious for our feeble sight,
Thy skies of cloudless azure beam.
We know thy happy valleys lie

In green repose, supremely blest;
We know against thy sapphire sky
Thy mountain peaks sublimely rest.
And sometimes even now we catch

Faint gleamings from the far-off shore,
And still with eager eyes we watch
For one sweet sign or token more.

For oh, the deeply loved are there!

The brave, the fair, the good, the wise, Who pined for thy serener air,

Nor shunned thy solemn mysteries.

THE PLANTING OF THE APPLE TREE.

BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

COME, let us plant the apple-tree!

Cleave the tough greensward with the spade;
Wide let its hollow bed be made;
There, gently lay the roots, and there
Sift the dark mold with kindly care,

And press it o'er them tenderly,
As round the sleeping infant's feet,
We softly fold the cradle sheet;
So plant we the apple-tree.

What plant we in this apple-tree?
Buds, which the breath of summer days
Shall lengthen into leafy sprays;

Boughs, where the thrush, with crimson breast,
Shall haunt, and sing, and hide her nest;
We plant, upon the sunny lea,

A shadow for the noontide hour,

A shelter from the summer shower,
When we plant the apple-tree.

What plant we in this apple-tree?
Sweets for a hundred flowery springs,
To load the May-wind's restless wings,
When, from the orchard-row, he pours
Its fragrance through our open doors;
A world of blossoms for the bee,
Flowers for the sick girl's silent room,
For the glad infant sprigs of bloom,
We plant with the apple-tree.

What plant we in this apple-tree?
Fruits that shall swell in sunny June,
And redden in the August noon,
And drop, as gentle airs come by,
That fan the blue September sky;
While children, wild with noisy glee,
Shall scent their fragrance as they pass,
And search for them the tufted grass
At the foot of the apple-tree.