SELECTIONS FOR MEMORIZATION
Reading edition
Prescribed by the Department of Education, in the Province of Ontario.
(Extract from Circular 58).
Junior Public School Diploma.
The High School Reader.
The Knights’ Chorus, p. 70; The Evening Wind, p. 93; The Return of the Swallows, p. 111; The Eternal Goodness, p. 118; Sir Galahad, p. 182; On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, p. 189; A Wood Lyric, p. 191.
Narrative and Lyric Poems.
Gray: Elegy, written in a Country Churchyard; Mrs. Browning: My Kate; Tennyson: Morte d’Arthur, ll. 113-142, “Then spoke King Arthur breathing heavily. . . so flashed and fell the brand Excalibur,” ll. 240-255, “The old order changeth. . . about the feet of God.”
Senior Public School Diploma, Senior High School Entrance,
and Entrance into the Model Schools.
Narrative and Lyric Poems.
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea; “As Ships, Becalm’d—”; The Chambered Nautilus; “You Ask me, Why—”; Enid’s song, “Turn, Fortune, turn thy Wheel”—four stanzas; Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, Parts VII and VIII; The Traveller, ll. 63-98, “But where to find. . . peculiar pain” and ll. 423-438, “Vain, very vain. . . all our own.”
The Merchant of Venice.
Act I, Sc. 1, ll. 79-99.Gratiano:Let me play . . . their brothers fools.
Act I, Sc. 2, ll. 13-22.Portia:If to do . . . the cripple.
Act II, Sc. 9, ll. 21-49.Arragon:Who chooseth me . . . new-varnished.
Act IV, Sc. 1, ll. 184-202.Portia:The quality of mercy . . . deeds of mercy.
Act V, Sc. 1, ll. 54-65.Lorenzo:How sweet . . . cannot hear it.
Act V, Sc. 1, ll. 83-88.Lorenzo:The man that hath no music . . . trusted.