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ōw or ōu = o long, marked ō.

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

1. A spring there is, whose silver waters show

Clear as a glass the shining sands below.

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2. O look! the sun begins to rise, the heavens are in a glow;

He shines upon a hundred fields, and all of them I know. - ALFred Tennyson.

3. A thousand feet in depth below Its massy waters meet and flow.

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4. The singing chimney chanted low The homely song of long ago.

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- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGfellow.

5. The birds pour forth their souls in notes.

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- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

6. Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Could quench our hearth-fire's ruddy glow.

-JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER.

7. Miles and miles of golden green, Where the sunflowers blow

In a solid glow. — Robert Browning.

8. Lo! sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow.

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9. And all the echoes mourn. -JOHN MILTON.

Review.

1. Copy the following sentences. Underscore all the words containing ō, ōa, ōu, or ōw. 2. Write from dictation.

1. O stretch thy reign, fair Peace! from shore to shore, Till conquest cease, and slavery be no more.

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2. How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow!

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3. And it mottled the water with amber and gold, Till the glad lilies rocked in the ripples that rolled.

-JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.

4. We lay beneath a spreading oak, Beside a mossy seat;

And from the turf a fountain broke,

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And gurgled at our feet. - WILLIAM Wordsworth.

5. I know the morning; and I love it, fresh and sweet as it is. DANIEL WEBSTER.

6. O yet we trust that somehow good

Will be the final goal of ill.- ALFRED TENNYSON.

7. Here the bright crocus and blue violet glow; Here western winds on breathing roses blow.

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8. The course of Nature is the art of God.

9. The royal kingcup bold

- EDWARD YOUNG.

Dares not don his coat of gold. - EDWIN ARNOLD.

Short o as in not, marked ŏ.

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

1. Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it,

We are happy now because God wills it.

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2. The ship was cheered, the harbor cleared;

Merrily did we drop

Below the kirk, below the hill,

Below the lighthouse top. -SAMUEL Taylor Coleridge.

3. Well, you have seen it - a tempting spot! Now come with me through the orchard plot

And down the lane to the gardener's cot.- PHŒBe Cary.

4. Spring there shall dress a sweeter sod.

Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. - WILLIAM COLLINS.

5. So blue yon winding river flows,

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It seems an outlet from the sky.

- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

Time, that aged nurse,

Rock'd me to patience. — JOHN Keats.

7. And lo! as through the western pines,

On meadow, stream, and pond,

Flamed the red radiance of a sky,

Set all afire beyond. — JOHN GREEnleaf Whittier.

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Review.

1. Copy the following sentences. Underscore all the words containing I or ŏ. 2. Write from dictation.

1. I shot an arrow into the air,

It fell to earth I knew not where.

- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

2. He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still. -SAMUEL Butler.

3. All seem'd as peaceful and as still, As the mist slumbering on yon hill.

- SIR WALTER SCOTT.

4. The voice of the night bird, that sends a thrill To the heart of the leaves, when the winds are still.

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5. The lazy mist hangs from the brow of the hill.

ROBERT BURNS.

6. Heap on more wood! The wind is chill;
But, let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our merry Christmas still.

- SIR WALTER SCOTT.

7. And some, their very names forgot, Not even a stone to mark the spot, Yet sleep in peace; so it matters not. —PHŒBE CARY.

8. A lovely bird with azure wings,

And song that said a thousand things,

And seem'd to say them all for me.

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Soft g as in gem, marked ġ.

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

1. All things must change

To something new, to something strange.

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2. Just in the green top of a hedge

That runs along a valley's edge

One star has thrust a golden wedge.-ALICE CARY.

3. I find the doctors and the sages

Have differed in all climes and ages. -THOMAS MOORE.

4. Ask why God made the gem so small,

While huge he made the granite.-ROBERT BURNS.

5. Change is the diet upon which all subsist.

6. O teach him, while your lessons last,

- WILLIAM COWPER.

To judge the present by the past.-SIR WALTER Scott.

7. Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,

When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

-SIR WALTER SCOTT.

8. Skirting the rocks at the forest edge With a running flame from ledge to ledge.

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9. In the stream the long-leaved flowers weep,

And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.

ALFRED TENNYSON.

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