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. 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. 4. The singing chimney chanted low The homely song of long ago. - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGfellow. 5. The birds pour forth their souls in notes. - 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. 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. 2. How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow! 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, WORDSWORTH. 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. 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. 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, 6. 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. C 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, 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. 5. The lazy mist hangs from the brow of the hill. ROBERT BURNS. 6. Heap on more wood! The wind is chill; - 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. 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. 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. 9. In the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep. ALFRED TENNYSON. |