the long blank noon the blank sand chafes and mars
The prow once swift to follow the lure of the dancing stars.

2. Distinguish the sound of _[=u]_ in use, pure, duke, etc.,

from the sound of _oo_ in
food, hoof, mood, rood, roof, soot, aloof,
and from the sound of _oo_ in
book, good, nook, hood, rook, look, foot, crook.

Read the following with special reference to these sounds:

Flew flashing under the blinding blue.

She left the web, she left the loom,
She made three paces thro' the room,
She saw the water-lily bloom,
She saw the helmet and the plume,
She look'd down to Camelot.

Singing the bridal of sap and shoot,
The tree's slow life between root and fruit.

... helter-skelter through the blue
Like a crowd of frightened porpoises a shoal of sharks pursue.

While on dreary moorlands lonely curlew pipe.

My Lords, you have that true image of the primitive Church in
its ancient form, in its ancient ordinances, purified from
the superstitions and vices which a long succession of
ages will bring upon the best institutions.

3. Double and triple consonant endings present difficulties of
articulation:--Robbed, bragged, divulged, mends, breathed, gossips,
casques, barracks, depths, heights, lengths, breadths, lists, aspects,
seethes, thirsteth, breathest, sheath'st, melt'st, search'st, sixths,
twelfths, tests.

Read with special reference to the articulation of the final
consonants:

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

Scattering down the snow-flakes off the curdled sky.

With throats unslaked, with black lips baked.

The guests are met, the feast is set
May'st hear the merry din.

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth
is renewed like the eagle's.

Spirit that breathest through my lattice,
Thou that cool'st the twilight of the sultry day.

He groped toward the door, but it was locked,
He cried aloud, and listened, and then knocked,
And uttered awful threatenings and complaints,
And imprecations upon men and saints.

It glared on Roslin's castled rock,
It ruddied all the copse-wood glen;
'Twas seen from Dryden's groves of oak,
And seen from caverned Hawthornden.

Skilful artists thou employest,
And in chastest beauty joyest,
Forms most delicate, pure, and clear,
Frost-ca