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