5th Recitations

Try, Try Again-Palmer

100

Tis a lesson you ______ ____, If at first you _____ _______, Try, try again;

should heed

don't succeed

200

Then your courage should ______,

For if you will ________,

You will conquer, never fear

Try, try again;

appear

persevere

conquer

300

Once or twice, though you _______ ____,

If you would __ _____ _______,

Try, try again;

should fail

at last prevail

400

If we strive, 'tis __ ________

Though we do ___ ___ ___ ____;

What should you __ __ ___ ____?

Try, try again

no disgrace

not win the race

do in the case

500

If you find your ____ __ ____,

Time will bring you your _______,

Try, try again

All that other ____ ___ __,

Why, with patience, should not you?

Only keep this ____ __ ____: Try, try again.

task is hard

reward

folks can do

rule in view

Four Seasons -C.F. Alexander

100

The fields are rich with ________,
A coat of clover cloaks the hills,
And I must dance, and _ ____ _____
To see the beauty of the spring.

daffodils

I must sing

200

The earth is warm, the ____ ______,
It is a time of carefree days;
And bees abuzz that _____ __ ____
May see me snoozing in the grass

sun's ablaze

chance to pass

300

The leaves are _____, ___ ___ _____,
A shower sprinkles softly down;
The air is fragrant, crisp, ___ ____,
And once again I'm _____ __ ______.

yellow, red, and brown

and cool

stuck in school

400

The birds are gone, the _____ __ _____,
The winds are wild, they chill ___ ____;
The ground is thick with ______ ___ ____,
And I can barely ____ __ ____.

world is white

and bite

slush and sleet

feel my feet

500

The last is done, the _____ __ ____,
The same as it is every ____;
Spring -- then sunshine 'autumn' ____,
That is how each ____ ____ __.

next is here

 year

snow

year must go

The Rainy Day -Longfellow

100

The day is cold, and dark, and _____;
It rains, and the wind is _____ _____;

dreary

never weary

200

The vine still ______ to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the ____ ______ fall,
And the day is _____ and dreary.

clings

dead leaves

dark

300

My ___ __ ____, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the ____ __ _____ weary;

life is cold

wind is never

400

My thoughts still ______ to the mouldering past,
But the hopes of youth fall _____ __ ___ _____,
And the ____ __ ____ and dreary.

cling

thick in the blast 

days are dark

500

Be still, ___ _____, and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the ___ _____ _______;
Thy fate is the _______ ____ __ ___,
Into each ____ some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

sad heart

 sun still shining

common fate of all

life

Ozmandias -Shelley

100

I met a _________ from an antique land,
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless ____ __ _____
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

traveller

legs of stone

200

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, ______ _____,
And wrinkled lip, ___ ______ of cold command,

whose frown

and sneer

300

Tell that ___ _________ well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on _____ ________ things,
The hand that _______ ____ and the heart that fed;

its sculptor

these lifeless

mocked them

400

And on the pedestal ______ ____ _______:
"My name is _________, ____ __ _____:
Look on __ _____, ye Mighty, and despair!"

these words appear

Ozymandias, king of kings

my works

500

Nothing ________ remains. Round the decay
Of that ____ _____, ___________ ___ bare,
The lone and _____ ______ stretch far away.

beside

colossal wreck, boundless and

level sands