Practice Book, Leland Powers School

My gratitude to publishers who have generously permitted the reprinting of copyrighted selections, I would here publicly express. To Little, Brown & Company I am indebted for the use of the extract called Eloquence, which is taken from a discourse by Daniel Webster; to Small, Maynard & Company for the poem A Conservative, taken from a volume by Mrs. Gilman, entitled In This Our World; to the Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company for the poems by Mr. Burton; and to Longmans, Green & Company for the extracts from the works of John Ruskin. The selections from Sill and Emerson are used by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflin & Company, publishers of their works.
The quotations under the headings Exercises for Elemental Vocal Expression and Exercises for Transition, with a few exceptions, are taken from The Sixth Reader, by the late Lewis B. Monroe, and are here reprinted through the courtesy of the American Book Company.
LELAND POWERS.
The exercises under each chapter have primarily the characteristics of that chapter, and secondarily the characteristics of the other two chapters.
MIND ACTIVITIES DOMINATED BY A CONSCIOUSNESS OF Power, Largeness, Freedom, Animation, Movement .
1. Ho! strike the flag-Staff deep, Sir Knight--ho! scatter flowers, fair maids: Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute--ho! gallants, draw your blades.
2. Awake, Sir King, the gates unspar! Rise up and ride both fast and far! The sea flows over bolt and bar.
3. I would call upon all the true sons of New England to co-operate with the laws of man and the justice of heaven.
4. Robert of Sicily, brother of Pope Urbane, And Volmond, emperor of Allemaine, Apparelled in magnificent attire, With retinue of many a knight and squire, On St. John's eve at vespers proudly sat, And heard the priest chant the Magnificat.
5. Then the master, With a gesture of command, Waved his hand; And at the word, Loud and sudden there was heard All around them and below The sound of hammers, blow on blow, Knocking away the shores and spurs. And see! she stirs! She starts,--she moves,--she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms!