2. Go, Went, Gone.

Read these sentences, filling the blanks with the proper forms of the verb go:

Those captive kings so straight and tall,
To be shorn of their streaming hair,
And, naked and bare,

To feel the stress and the strain

Of the wind and the reeling main,

Whose roar

Would remind them forevermore

Of their native forests they should not see again.

And everywhere

The slender, graceful spars
Poise aloft in the air,
And at the mast-head,

White, blue, and red,

A flag unrolls the stripes and stars.

Ah! when the wanderer, lonely, friendless,

In foreign harbors shall behold

That flag unrolled,

'Twill be as a friendly hand

Stretched out from his native land,

Filling his heart with memories sweet and endless!

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!

How beautiful she is! How fair

She lies within those arms, that press
Her form with many a soft caress

Of tenderness and watchful care!
Sail forth into the sea, O ship!

Through wind and wave, right onward steer!
The moistened eye, the trembling lip,
Are not the signs of doubt or fear.

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O UNION, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,

With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
We know what Master laid thy keel,
What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what a forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Fear not each sudden sound and shock,
'Tis of the wave and not the rock;
'Tis but the flapping of the sail,
And not a rent made by the gale!
In spite of rock and tempest's roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,

Are all with thee - are all with thee!

2. Study of Selection.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Explain the first four lines of the poem.
Who is supposed to have spoken these words?
What does the second stanza tell you?

Give the thought of this stanza in your own words.
Give the topic of the third stanza.

What does the poet say the flag of the ship will be to the wanderer in foreign lands?

Have you ever seen the launching of a ship?

If not, read the fourth stanza and then describe the launching in your own words.

What comparison is made in the last stanza?

Do you think "future hopes" may refer to the continuance of a democratic form of government?

Name some of the "workmen" who helped to build our "Ship of State."

Mention some of the "rocks" and "tempests" that have tried our "Ship of State" in recent years.

Why is ship-building of importance to our country?
Memorize the last stanza.

1. Compound and Complex Sentences.

Review compound and complex sentences, pages 13 and 17.

From the following simple sentences make compound and complex sentences:

Examples: (1) The masts were made of pine trees and these were cut in the forests of Maine. (Compound) (2) The masts were made of pine trees which were cut in the forests of Maine. (Complex)

1. The masts were made of pine trees.

2. The pines were cut in the forests of Maine.
3. Snow covered the ground at the time.

4. Longfellow compares the pines to captive kings.
5. The pines were dragged down the winding road.
6. Their branches were cut off.

7. The pines could still hear the wind.

8. The sound reminded them of their old home.

9. It reminded them of the forests.

10. They would never see the forests again.

2. Memorizing.

Commit to memory the following stanza:

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!

Leave thy low-vaulted past!

Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,

Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea.

Be prepared to discuss some current event of local or general interest, preferably one that relates to the building or the launching of a ship; or report upon the kinds of ships (wooden, steel, etc.,) now being built in this country. Make an outline to guide you in your talk.