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Abbreviations afternoon apple bird blossoms blue bluebird breeze brown thrush clouds Copy and memorize Copy the following cousin dance Dear dictation sentences dress EDWARD LEAR Father flag floated flowers grow following list select forenoon garden Give other words glad grocer hear JOYCE KILMER knits knob Let Freedom ring letters and study lowing words memorize the following mother nest night O'er the land Ocean Grove ounce pears Phonic Drill Give playmates pound Pronounce correctly pupil Pussy rain Review river ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON round Santa Claus select the words sing skate sleigh sound spelling squirrel star-spangled banner study their form SUPPLEMENTARY LANGUAGE EXERCISES sweet Sweet land talk teach tences thee thee I sing THIRD YEAR-FIRST HALF tis of thee tree VOCABULARY walk watched wave O'er wind words ending words you know write the fol
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Page 99 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 98 - I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast.
Page 98 - Oh, say! can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming — Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets...
Page 99 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave...
Page 39 - tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrim's pride, From every mountain side Let Freedom ring.
Page 91 - The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the stars above, And sang to a small guitar, "O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are, You are, You are!
Page 89 - Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song! Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong! Our fathers...
Page 90 - With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow, With cities and gardens, and cliffs and isles, And people upon you for thousands of miles ? Ah! you are so great, and I am so small, I...
Page 39 - Suppose your task, my little man, Is very hard to get, Will it make it any easier For you to sit and fret? And wouldn't it be wiser, Than waiting like a dunce, To go to work in earnest, And learn the thing at once? Suppose that some boys have a horse, And some a coach and pair, Will it tire you less, while walking, To say, "It isn't fair?
Page 90 - The wonderful air is over me, And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree ; It walks on the water and whirls the mills, And talks to itself on the tops of the hills.