ea e long, marked ĕ.

1. Copy the following sentences carefully. dictation.

1. Touch us gently, Time!

Let us glide adown thy stream

Gently, - as we sometimes glide

2. Write from

Through a quiet dream. - BRYAN WALLER PROCTER.

2. The same sweet sounds are in my ear

My early childhood loved to hear.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

3. Who rowing hard against the stream,

Saw distant gates of Eden gleam,

And did not dream it was a dream. - ALFRED TENNYSON.

4. Our bread was such as captives' tears Have moisten'd many a thousand years.

5. Hark! the numbers soft and clear

Gently steal upon the ear. - ALEXander Pope.

6. Under the snowdrifts the blossoms are sleeping, Dreaming their dreams of sunshine and June.

HARRIET PRESCOTT SPofford.

7. My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.

8. Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear,

The listener held his breath to hear.- SIR WALTER SCOTT.

Review.

1. Copy the following sentences.

Underscore all the words

containing ē, ĕe, or ēa. 2. Write from dictation.

1.

Songsters of the early year

Are every day more sweet to hear. - ROBERT Burns.

2. This new life is likely to be

Hard for a gay young fellow like me.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

3. Not the faintest motion could be seen Of all the shades that slanted o'er the

4. So soft, though high, so loud, and yet so clear, Even listening angels lean'd from heaven to hear.

ALEXANDER POPE.

5. Now spring has clad the grove in green,

And strew'd the lea with flowers. - ROBERT BURNS.

6. For bright as brightest sunshine

The light of memory streams

Round the old-fashioned homestead,

Where I dreamed my dream of dreams!— ALICE Cary.

7. And Nature, the old nurse, took
The child upon her knee,
Saying "Here is a story book
Thy Father has written for thee."

- HENRY WADSWORTH Longfellow.

B

Short e as in met, marked ĕ.

1. Copy the following sentences carefully. 2. Write from dictation.

1. The young girl mused beside the well, Till the rain on the unraked clover fell.

-JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

2. When the red tints of the west

Prove the sun is gone to rest.—Karl Herrlossohn.

3. Violets are gone from their grassy dell,

With the cowslip cups, where the fairies dwell.

4. A name which you all know by sight very well; But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.

ROBERT SOUTHEY.

5. A rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea.

6. With a bee in every bell,

- JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND.

Almond bloom, we greet thee well. - EDWIN ARNOLD.

7. O'er me, like a regal tent,

Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent.

- JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

8. Yes, sweet it seems across some watery dell To catch the music of the pealing bell.

9. No bird so wild but has its quiet nest.

-REGINALD Heber.

-PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.