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Show HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS OF INTERPRETATION 90 Stay and read this rude inscription, Read this Song of Hiawatha. 9. Ye, who sometimes, in your rambles Through the green lanes of the country, Where the tangled barberry-bushes Hang their: tufts of crimson berries Over stone walls gray with mosses, Pause by some neglected graveyard, For a while to muse, and ponder On a half-effaced inscription, Written with little skill in song Homely phrases, but each letter craft, hope and yet of heart break, pathos Of the Here and the Hereafter; Stay and read this rude inscription, Full of Full of all the tender Read this song of Hiawatha. Importance of Practice. Thus we have completed the circle. It may strike you that this could be done in less than nine repeti tions. I doubt it, for it' is a hard matter to hold and at the same time to carry the idea forward, each idea in relative importance. We must develop our power to sustain complex mental weight in way that we gain physical strength to carry physical To carry three hundred pounds would lame, if not per weight. manently injure, anyone who had not tried it and prepared many the same times to do it; but if someone accustoms the body to begins with a light weight and increase day by day, the heavy gradually weight becomes easy to bear. So it is with the' mind and voice. Each student should be required to give such exercises, building from the simple to the complex, thereby making the selection clear It must not be and always remembering to read impressively. true drill as a emotional motivation must always exercise; merely There must be the much practice. accompany repetition, but there must also be nothing of mechanical delivery or lack of feeling or lack of thinking, Note how this exercise is built around the subjects and verbsan |
