(1) Command.

     Call up the shades of Demosthenes and Cicero to vouch for your
     words; point to their immortal works.—­J.Q.  ADAMS.

     Honor all men; love all men; fear none.—­CHANNING.

(2) Entreaty.

Oh, from these sterner aspects of thy face Spare me and mine, nor let us need the wrath Of the mad unchained elements.  —­BRYANT.

(3) Request.

     “Hush! mother,” whispered Kit. “Come along with me.”—­DICKENS

     Tell me, how was it you thought of coming here?—­Id.

[Sidenote:  Sometimes with first person in the plural.]

But the imperative may be used with the plural of the first person.  Since the first person plural person is not really I + I, but I + you, or I + they, etc., we may use the imperative with we in a command, request, etc., to you implied in it.  This is scarcely ever found outside of poetry.

     Part we in friendship from your land,
     And, noble earl, receive my hand. 
     —­SCOTT.

     Then seek we not their camp—­for there
     The silence dwells of my despair. 
     —­CAMPBELL.

     Break we our watch up.—­SHAKESPEARE.

Usually this is expressed by let with the objective:  “Let us go.”  And the same with the third person:  “Let him be accursed.”

Exercises on the Moods.

(a) Tell the mood of each verb in these sentences, and what special use it is of that mood:—­

1.  Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or
shall be unfurled, there will her heart and her prayers be.

2.  Mark thou this difference, child of earth! 
While each performs his part,
Not all the lip can speak is worth
The silence of the heart.

3.  Oh, that I might be admitted to thy presence! that mine were
the supreme delight of knowing thy will!

4.  ’Twere worth ten years of peaceful life,
One glance at their array!

5.  Whatever inconvenience ensue, nothing is to be preferred
before justice.

6.  The vigorous sun would catch it up at eve
And use it for an anvil till he had filled
The shelves of heaven with burning thunderbolts.

7.  Meet is it changes should control
Our being, lest we rust in ease.

8.  Quoth she, “The Devil take the goose,
And God forget the stranger!”

9.  Think not that I speak for your sakes.

10.  “Now tread we a measure!” said young Lochinvar.

11.  Were that a just return?  Were that Roman magnanimity?

12.  Well; how he may do his work, whether he do it right or
wrong, or do it at all, is a point which no man in the world has
taken the pains to think of.