hose forging on Thine anvil was begun
In blood late shed to purge the common shame;
That so our hearts, the fever of faction done,
Banish old feud in our young nation's name.

--_Charles G. D. Roberts_ (_By arrangement_)

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ENGLAND

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress, built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea.

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APPENDIX

A

EXERCISES IN VOWEL SOUNDS AND IN ARTICULATION

1. [=a] as in ate, fate, cave, made, glade, pale.

a as in air, fair, chair, hair, lair, pair, care, dare, bare,
share, bear, fairy, compare, parent, prayer, garish, there, heir.

[)a] as in at, that, and, damp, glad, bade, castle, baron, barrel.

ae as in far, arm, hark, charm, march, bard, calm, palm, psalm,
balm, half, alms, father, dark, wrath, path, marsh, laugh.

[.a] as in ask, grasp, fast, last, pass, past, branch, chance, dance,
mast, vast, gasp, quaff, craft, staff, chant, grass, mass.

[a:] as in all, talk, squall, dawn, warp, hawk, laurel, haughty, halt.

a obscure, in final medial syllables, unaccented, and closed by n,
l, nt, nce, nd, s, ss, st, p or ph or ff, m, or d, as in sylvan,
vacancy, mortal, loyal, valiant, guidance, husband, breakfast,
gallant, ballad, etc.

[=e] as in me, seem, reap, weed, lean, evil, redeem.

[)e] as in met, end, spell, debt, text, jest, when, merry, America,
ceremony.

[~e] (coalescent) as in her, fern, earth, mercy, verse, stern, earl,
pearl, term, verge, prefer, serge, earn, early.

[=i] as in time, tide, mile, wine, high, size.

[)i] as in pin, grim, king, gift, this, grip.

[=i] (coalescent) as in bird, girl, fir, stir, girdle, circle, virgin,
first.

[=o] as in note, old, spoke, pole, wrote, joke.

[)o] as in not, shot, top, odd, honest, comic, on, gone, off, often,
dog, (not "dawg"), God, soft, long, song, strong, coral, orange,
foreign, torrid, coronet, corridor, correlate.

o as in corn, lord, stork, orb, form, forlorn, morn, short, adorn.

o as in word, work, worm, worry.

[.o] as in love, done, some, cover, brother, another, month,