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abbreviation antonyms apostrophe arranged autumn bayberries bayberry wax begin with capitals Bessie boys business letters called candles capital letters carefully central thought colors column comma correctly dear envelope errand express fire following sentences groups of words hyphen Indians interesting JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL John John Greenleaf Whittier John Townsend Trowbridge kettle kinds of sentences language learned LESSON LETTER WRITING continued lines little fox little Hiawatha look Louisa May Alcott Mary means month Mother night NOTE TO TEACHERS Notice paper paragraph person picture Pilgrims play Plymouth Plymouth Rock poem printing punctuation queer question quotation marks REVIEW EXERCISE Reynard rhymes Robert Louis Stevenson Rock root-word salutation September 13 Sometimes stanza story syllables tell tence things TOOLS IN ENGLISH trees vowel wind written English WRITTEN EXERCISE
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Page 217 - Hear the loud alarum bells, Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Page 180 - I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies' skirts across the grass O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song! I saw the different things you did, But always you yourself you hid. I felt you push, I heard you call, I could not see yourself at all O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!
Page 70 - Tis the heaven of flowers you see there; All the wild-flowers of the forest, All the lilies of the prairie, When on earth they fade and perish, Blossom in that heaven above us.
Page 49 - Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land ? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow, serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God.
Page 49 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free.
Page 13 - AUTUMN FIRES IN the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfires See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, The gray smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all! Flowers in the summer, Fires in the fall!
Page 166 - Free-hearted Hospitality; His great fires up the chimney roared; The stranger feasted at his board; But, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — ' 'Forever — never ! Never — forever!
Page 52 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 218 - Yet the ear distinctly tells In the jangling And the wrangling How the danger sinks and swells, — By the sinking or the swelling in...
Page 165 - To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flutters and sings; He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest, — In the nice ear of Nature, which song is the best?