Review. Underscore all the words 1. Copy the following sentences. containing or y. 2. Write from dictation. 1. Out of the shadow of night, The world rolls into light. 2. As a violet's gentle eye -HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Gazes on the azure sky. - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 3. Tell me, fellow-creatures, why fly.- ROBERT Burns. At my presence thus you fly. 4. 'Tis softer than the west wind's sigh. -PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 5. Let dimpled Mirth his temples twine With tendrils of the laughing vine. 6. Alone, in that dark sorrow, hour after hour crept by; Star after star looked palely in and sank adown the sky.-JOHN Greenleaf Whittier. 7. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry.-RALPH Waldo Emerson. 8. For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right.-WILLIAM COWPER. Short i as in pin, marked I. 1. Copy the following sentences carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. Take not away the life you cannot give; For all things have an equal right to live. 2. To seek the primrose where it springs; Or chase the fly with painted wings. - JOHN DRYDEN. - FELICIA D. HEMANS. 3. Flowers of the field with petals thin, Lilies that neither toil nor spin. -HENRY WADSWORTH LONGfellow. 4. If you look to vale or hill, If you listen, all is still, Save a little neighboring rill.- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 5. All was still, save that the hill Was telling of the sound. - SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERidge. 6. The insect-youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honeyed spring. — THOMAS GRAY. 7. My ears with tingling echoes ring, And life itself is on the wing. GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. 8. We grant, although he had much wit, He was very shy of using it.-Samuel Butler. 9. The bee that at her flowery work doth sing. 1. Copy carefully. 2. Write from dictation, or from memory. The storybooks have told you Of the fairy-folks so nice, Like a cap upon their heads, These stories, too, have told you, There are no fairy-folk that ride Who give you rings and other things, To pay But if you do to others what You'd have them do to you, You'll be as blest as if the best Of storybooks were true. - ALICe Cary. Long o as in note, marked ō. 1. Copy the following sentences carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. The leaf is growing old, And wears in grace of duty done, The gold and scarlet of the sun. MARGARET E. SANGSTER. 2. The airs and streams renew their joyous tone. - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 3. Summer gathers up her robes of glory, And like a dream of beauty glides away. 4. The linnet's warble, sinking toward a close, Hints to the thrush 'tis time for their repose. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 5. Time passed, and Autumn came to fold Green summer in her brown and gold. - JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 6. The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. - GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON. 7. Her cap of velvet could not hold The tresses of her hair of gold. - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. 8. The morning sets her rosy clouds And o'er and o'er their dear old tunes ōa o long, marked ō. 1. Copy the following sentences carefully. dictation. 1. On one side is a field of drooping oats, 2. Write from 2. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is at home. - OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 3. Made white with foam the green and purple sea. 4. How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence! -JOHN MILTON. 5. Telling tales of the fairy, who traveled like steam, In a pumpkin-shell coach, with two rats for a team. -JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. 6. His great fires up the chimney roared; The stranger feasted at his board. - HENRY WAdsworth Longfellow. 7. 'Tis a bird I love with its brooding note, 8. Faintly as tolls the evening chime, -THOMAS MOORE. 9. And when he caught the thrush's note, He, too, began to tune his throat. - PHOEBE CAry. |