o as in word and û as in hurt;
ȯ as in love and ŭ 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.