5. Read the following without making any pauses. Reread correctly and note the
difference:
Soon the night will pass; and when, of the Sentinel on the ramparts of Liberty
the anxious ask: | "Watchman, what of the night?" his answer will be | "Lo, the
morn appeareth."
Knowing the price we must pay, | the sacrifice | we must make, | the burdens |
we must carry, | the assaults | we must endure, | knowing full well the cost, |
yet we enlist, and we enlist | for the war. | For we know the justice of our
cause, | and we know, too, its certain triumph. |
Not reluctantly, then, | but eagerly, | not with faint hearts, | but strong, do
we now advance upon the enemies of the people. | For the call that comes to us
is the call that came to our fathers. | As they responded, so shall we.
"He hath sounded forth a trumpet | that shall never call retreat, He is sifting
out the hearts of men | before His judgment seat. Oh, be swift | our souls to
answer Him, | be jubilant our feet, Our God | is marching on."
--ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, _From his speech as temporary chairman of Progressive
National Convention, Chicago, 1912_.
6. Bring out the contrasting ideas in the following by using the pause: