ay a long, marked ā. 1. Copy the following sentences carefully. Remember that the punctuation is a part of the written sentence. 2. Write from dictation. 1. And on the bay the moonlight lay, And the shadow of the moon. 2. Again the sunny month of May Has made our hills and valleys gay. - ROBERT Burns. 3. Maud Muller on a summer's day, 4. Raked the meadows sweet with hay. - JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. Until the break of day Through this house each fairy stray. 5. I see them on their winding way; Above their ranks the moonbeams play. 6. Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous music wake the dawning day! -ALEXANDer Pope. 7. "Come up! come up!" They seem to say, 8. See yon gay goldfinch hop from spray to spray, Who sings a farewell to the parting day. -JoHn Gay. Review. 1. Copy the following sentences. Underscore all the words containing ā, āi, or ay. 2. Write from dictation. 1. While misty dawn, and moonbeam pale, Still mingled in the silent dale. - SIR WALTER SCOTT. 2. O stay, sweet warbling wood-lark, stay, 3. Nor quit for me the trembling spray. - ROBERT Burns. Where Nature never gave A brook to murmur or a bough to wave. - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 4. Here hath been dawning another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it slip useless away? - THOMAS CARLYLE. 5. And how should the hills be clothed with grain, The vales with flowers be crowned, But for the chain of silver rain That draws them out of the ground.-ALICE CARY. The mist and the river, the hill and the shade. 8. There, all around, the gentlest breezes stray; There gentle music melts on ev'ry spray. -OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Short a as in hat, marked ǎ. 1. Copy the following sentences. Note carefully the punctuation. 2. Write from dictation. 1. The wild birds sang, the echoes rang. - ROBERt Burns. Its broad, bright surges to the sloping sand. 3. Now, o'er the earth a solemn stillness ran, And lull'd alike the cares of brute and man. - GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. 4. Among the lilacs hand in hand, And two by two in fairy land. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. 5. Here Ceres'1 gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand. ALEXANDER POPE. 6. Twilight brought back the evening star to the sky. - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. 7. Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! 8. Love took up the glass of Time, and turn'd it in his glowing hands; Every moment, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden sands. ALFRED TENNYSON. 1 Ce'res, the goddess of corn and harvests. Long e as in me, marked ē. ēe = ē. 1. Copy the following sentences carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be? - GEORGE WITHER. 2. We cannot be here and there too. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 3. She sings it under our own green tree, - FELICIA D. HEMANS. 4. I feed the clouds, the rainbows, and the flowers. 5. Dewdrops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve. - SAMUEL TAYLOR COLeridge. 6. All the broad leaves over me Clap their little hands in glee. 7. A calm, unbroken sleep - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Is on the blue waves of the deep.· GEORGE D. PRENTICE. 8. The feathered people you might see, 9. Perched all around on every tree. - ROBERT Burns. Now night grows deep, And silent as its clouds, and full of sleep. - FELICIA D. HEMANS. ĕee long, marked ē. 1. Copy the following sentences carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just stirr'd the trees. 2. Honor to those whose words and deeds Thus help us in our daily needs. 3. Blossom of the almond trees, April's gift to April's bees. - EDWIn Arnold. 4. Sunbeam! what gift has the world like thee? 5. How pleasant the life of a bird must be, Flitting about in a leafy tree! - MARY HOWITT. 6. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep. — ALFRED TENnyson. 7. Kindling a flush on the fair cheek of spring. -PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 8. But sleep stole on, as sleep will do |