company,
Monday, front, covet, wonder, sponge, smother.

oe as in do, move, who, whose, lose, prove, too, bosom.

[=u] as in use, pure, duke, tune, tube, blue, duty, flew, new,
student, subdue, pursue, absolute, illumine, tumult, suit, during,
pursuit, presume, lunacy, Tuesday, numeral.

[)u] as in us, up, but, drum, dusk, trust.

[u:] as in rude, brute, fruit, sure, true, construe, recruit.

[u.] as in full, pull, put, push, cushion, bushel, pulpit, bullet.

u as in hurt, burr, cur, fur, furl, burst, purr, recur, curfew,
furlong, surge, urn.

Note that ae in far and [.a] in ask are called long Italian _a_ and short
Italian _a_ respectively. The quality of the sound is the same in each,
but they differ in quantity, the latter being shorter.

The following vowels have the same sound:

[~e] (coalescent) and [~i] (coalescent);

oe as in do, [u:] as in rude, and [oo=] as in food;

o as in word and u as in hurt;

[.o] as in love and u as in us.

After marking the vowels diacritically read the following passages,
paying special attention to the vowel sounds:

So Lord Howard passed away with five ships of war that day.

That desperate grasp thy frame might feel
Through bars of brass and triple steel.

The guide, abating of his pace,
Led slowly through the pass's jaws,
And asked Fitz-James by what strange cause
He sought these wilds, traversed by few
Without a pass from Roderick Dhu.

The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms,
The heart outstretches its eager palms.

O listen, ladies, ladies gay!
No haughty feat of arms I tell;
Soft is the note, and sad the lay
That mourns the lovely Rosabelle.

And when the Angel met him on his way,
And half in earnest, half in jest, would say,
Sternly, though tenderly, that he might feel
The velvet scabbard held a sword of steel,
"Art thou the King?" the passion of his woe
Burst from him in resistless overflow,
And, lifting high his forehead, he would fling
The haughty answer back, "I am, I am the King!"

Then rest thee here till dawn of day;
Myself will guide thee on the way,
O'er stock and stone, through watch and ward,
Till past Clan-Alpine's outmost guard,
'As far as Coilantogle's ford;
From thence thy warrant is thy sword.

Around the keel that raced the dolphin and the shark
Only the sand-wren twitters from barren dawn till dark;
And all