Review. 1. Copy the following sentences. Underscore all the words containing u, or ǎ. 2. Write from dictation. 1. Its sunlit mountain tops are bathed In heaven's own blue. -JAMES A. GARFIELD. 2. Before green apples blush, Before green nuts embrown, Why, one day in the country Is worth a month in town. - CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI. 3. I must go, I must run, Swifter than the fiery sun. - FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLEtcher. 4. Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart! ELIZA COOK. 5. The faint fresh flame of the young year flushes, From leaf to flower and flower to fruit. 6. Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes. — ALFRED TENNYSON. 7. Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.-JAMES SHIRLEY. 8. Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Sound of s as in has, marked § = Z. 1. Copy the following sentences carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. Are thy thoughts wandering to elves and fays, And spirits that dwell where the water plays? -FELICIA D. HEMANS. 2. He spoke of the grass and flowers and trees, Of the singing birds and humming bees. 3. JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed. - EDWARD YOUNG. 4. Till painting gay the eastern skies, The glorious sun began to rise.- Robert Burns. 5. Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close, Up yonder hill the village murmur rose. - OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 6. But why the wave rises and kisses the rose, And why the rose stoops for those kisses - who knows?- EDMUND Waller. 7. The blackbird in the summer trees, The lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when they will.-WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 8. The rose has but a summer's reign, The daisy never dies,-JAMES MONTGOMERY. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation, or from memory. ROSES. It is summer, says a fairy, Bring me tissue light and airy; And the white in pure pearl gleaming. Bring me diamonds from the spaces With an art no fay discloses I am going to make some roses. — ANON. I love it, I love it, the laugh of a child, Some words pronounced alike. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 3. Use the italicized words in sentences of your own. 1. Heaven's gate is shut to him who comes alone. - JOHN GREENLEAF Whittier. 2. His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow. - GEORGE Arnold. 3. Green pastures she views in the midst of the dale, Down which she so often has tripped with her pail. - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 4. Flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. 5. Where village statesmen talked with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. 9. Like Æsop's fox, when he had lost his tail, would have all his fellow-foxes cut off theirs. Broad a as in all, marked a. 1. Copy the following sentences carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. -SAMUEL TAYLOr Coleridge. 2. Life and joy and health appear, Sweet Morning! at thy call.-FELICIA D. HEMANS. 3. In the leafy trees so broad and tall, Like a green and beautiful palace hall.-MARY HOWITT. 4. Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall, To see the hoard of human bliss so small. 5. The fish swam by the castle wall, And they seem'd joyous each and all. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. - GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. 6. Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through the night, Talked with me from fall to fall. -JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 7. He gathered the ripe nuts in the fall, And berries that grew by fence and wall So high she could not reach them all.-PHEBE CARY. 8. We'll gently walk and sweetly talk.-ROBERt Burns. |