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3. As wounds in battle given,

Scarce felt when blood is hot,

So hearts may yet be riven

Though at first they knew it not.

4. What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker meant not should be trod

By man, the image of his God,

Erect and free,

Unscourged by Superstition's rod to bow the knee?

5. An honest man's the noblest work of God.

6. He was firm as a rock.

7. Let the carrion rot-there are no noble men but Romans.

Element No. 15.

1. Rum has been the ruin of thousands.

2. Destroy all creatures in thy sport and gust,
"If man's unhappy, God's unjust."
3. He is a lumber merchant-his name is Dun.

Then say

4. Your apprehension must be dull,

To let a thought within your skull
Of matrimony spring.

5. The law was enacted by heaven above,

That like begets like, and that love begets love.
6. If there be, as there is, in this valley of tears,
One remembrance more dear than another,

It is that which runs back to our infantile years,―
The remembrance of thee, dearest mother.

7. What duties have I left undone?

What have I sought I ought to shun?
Or into what new follies run?

These self-inquiries are the road
That leads to virtue and to God.

8. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
Rules men below and gods above,

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

9. Trip lightly over trouble,

Pass lightly over wrong;

We only make grief double

By dwelling on it long.

10. Go, my son, and shut the shutter,
This I heard a mother utter.
Shutter's shut, the boy did mutter,
I can't shut it any shutter.
11. One constant element of luck
Is genuine old Teutonic pluck.

Element No, 16.

1. Here foot to foot, and steel to steel,

A chieftain's vengeance thou shalt feel.
2. Money is said to be the root of all evil.
3. I am thinking of the glen, Johnnie,
And the little running brook,

Of the birds upon the hazel copse,
And the violets in the nook.

4. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day,

Had he thy reason would he skip and play?
Pleased to the last he crops the flow'ry food,
And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

DOUBLE OPEN VOWEL SOUNDS.

Element No. 17.

1. Honor and shame from no condition rise,

Act well your part, 't is there the honor lies.

2. Will you dine with me to-morrow? Yes; if I be alive and your dinner be worth eating.

3. Of all the vices that conspire to blind

Man's erring judgment, and misguide his mind,

What the weak head with strongest bias rules

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

4. Time is the stuff of which life is made.

5. There were six men of Indostan,

To learning much inclined,

Who went to see the Elephant, though all of them were blind,
That each by observation might satisfy his mind.

6. Ye freemen, how long will ye stifle

The vengeance that justice inspires?

Out, out, with the sword and the rifle,

Nor shame the proud name of your sires!
7. Think for thyself, be sure thy thought
Be firmly fixed and right,

Then like a pearl unto the rock
Cling fast with all thy might.

8. Remember the adage,-Don't trifle with fire;
Temptation, you know, was always a liar;

Do you wish to crush out the burning desire?
Put down the brakes.

9. He that by the plow would thrive

Must either hold the plow or drive.

10. Idleness is a fruitful cause of vice and crime.
11. Habits are soon assumed, but when we strive
To strip, 't is being flayed alive.

Element No. 18.

1. The soil of Illinois is very productive.
2. Thus it is in this world, whatever our lot,
Our minds and our time we employ

In longing and sighing for what we have not,
Ungrateful for what we enjoy.

3. Want of enjoyment is want of employment.
4. What nothing earthly gives or can destroy,

The soul's calm sunshine and its heartfelt joy,
Is virtue's prize.

5. If we suffer the mind and body to be unemployed, our enjoyments, as well as our labors, will be terminated.

6. Coin is metallic currency.

7. Let us the present hour employ,

And deem each dream of future joy
Already past.

8. The skill that conquers space and time,
That graces life, that brightens toil,
May spring from courage more sublime

Than that which makes a realm its spoil.

9. Have ye vices that seek a destroyer?

Have you passions that need your control?

Let reason be made your employer,

And your body submit to your soul.

Element No. 19.

1. The owl is called the bird of Minerva.
2. For love-lorn swain in ladies' bower
Ne'er panted for the appointed hour
As I, until before me stand

This rebel Chieftain and his band.
3. Enough! enough! I will not now
Fresh cause of enmity avow.
4. If every one's eternal care

Were written on his brow,

How many would our pity share

Who share our envy now.

5. And Nathan said unto David," Thou art the man."
6. Attempt the end, and never stay in doubt;

Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

7. No pent-up Utica confines our powers,

But the whole boundless universe is ours.

8. Now's the day and now's the hour.

Element No. 20.

1. Sweet are the uses of adversity; which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.

2. Swift as the scream of the curlew,
From crag to crag the signal flew.
3. What is man? Creation's wonder:
Half an angel, half a brute:

A frown can tear his heart asunder,
A tear can make his passions mute.

4. Our sensibilities are so acute,

5.

The fear of being silent makes us mute.

And still the wonder grew,

How one small head contained the whole he knew.
6. How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood,
When fond recollection presents them to view-

The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wild-wood,
And all the loved scenes that my infancy knew.

7. Yet still Lord Marmion's falcon flew

With wavering flight, while fiercer grew
Around the battle yell.

The true sound of any element is expressed more perfectly at the end than at the commencement of a word or a syllable. Take great care to give the subvocals correctly, and to give the sound when it ends the word in a prolonged, pure, and distinct tone. Give each passage as if

talking your own thoughts.

CORRELATIVE SUBVOCALS.

Element No. 21.

1. Time is the web of life.

2. O woman, though only a part of man's rib,
If the story in Genesis don't tell a fib.
3. There was a man whose name was Dob,
He had a wife whose name was Mob,
He had a dog that they called Cob,
And she a cat whose name was Bob.
4. Cob! Cob! why, this to Cob was only sport;
Pray, what has Cob that any rain could hurt?

Element No. 22.

1. Lives there a man with soul so dead,

Who never to himself hath said

This is my own, my native land?

2. Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod:

Rejudge his justice be the God of god.

3. Teach me to live that I may dread

The grave as little as my bed.

Element No. 23.

1. Hath a dog money? Is it possible a cur can lend three thousand ducats?

2. His right hand grasped a traveling trunk, his left hand held a bag,

And by the twinkling of his eye you recognized a wag.

3. Half a league, half a league, half a league onward,
Into the valley of death rode the six hundred.

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