...unavailing 'Mid the spirits that have passed beyond the BEFORE THE RAIN. THOMAS BAILEY ALDKICH. We knew it would rain, for all the morn A spirit on slender...marshes and swamps and dismal fens — Scooping the dens that lay in the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in...

...yonder, all in saintly guise, As 'twere, a sweet dead woman lies Upon the trestles ! BEFORE THE RAIN. WE knew it would rain, for all the morn, A spirit on...marshes, and swamps, and dismal fens, — Scooping the clew that lay in' the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in...

...his wasted brow the breath of the eternal morning. BEFORE AND AFTER THE RAIN.' WE knew It would rein, for all the morn, A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering lia goldeu buckete down Into the vapory ametbyet Of marshes and swamps and dUmal fens,— Scooping...

...soldier's brow. From Aldrich. Hypatia — ah, what lovely things Are fashioned out of eighteen springs ! We knew it would rain, for all the morn A spirit on slender...the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in showers. Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear as the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts that work no harm...

...am'-ber, yellowish like amber ; bernfieinfarbig. skein, a number of threads ; Sirafyn; Strang. 1. We knew it would rain, for, all the morn, A spirit on...Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethysts. 2. Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens, — Scooping the dew that lay on the flowers,...

...says, "of equal honor with him who writes the grand poem, is he who reads it grandly." FHW THE RAIN. We knew it would rain, for all the morn A spirit on slender robes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and...

...I must give you an extract from Aldrich, who has written some exceedingly dainty things : — " We knew it would rain ; for all the morn A spirit on...the sea To sprinkle them over the land in showers." It is the sunshine, then, that makes the rain. You will get a suggestion from that perhaps by and by....

...maids; Brief as thy lyrics, Herrick, are, And polished as the bosom of a star. 35 BEFORE THE RAIN WE knew it would rain, for all the morn, A spirit on...the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To scatter them over the land in showers. We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their...

...maids ; Brief as thy lyrics, Herrick, are, And polished as the bosom of a star. BEFORE THE RAIN WE knew it would rain, for all the morn, A spirit on...the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To scatter them over the land in showers. We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their...

...saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain. — Bayard Taylor. BEFORE THE RAIN. WE knew it would rain, for all the morn A spirit on slender...swamps and dismal fens, Scooping the dew that lay on the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in showers. We knew...