s: diffusing itself from the tomb. Cf. Tertullian (_Apol._ 42): "The


s: "_Nosco meum in Christo corpus resurgere; quid me


s: Desperare iubes? veniam, quibus ille revenit


s: Calcata de morte viis: quod credimus hoc est._


s: _Pellite corde metum, mea membra, et credite vosmet


s: Cum Christo reditura Deo; nam vos gerit ille


s: Et secum revocat: morbos ridete minaces:


s: Inflictos casus contemnite; tetra sepulcra


s: Despuite; exsurgens quo Christus provocat, ite._"


s: Why bid me, then, despair? for I shall go


s: By that same path whereby my Lord returned,


s: Death trodden 'neath His feet: this is my creed.


s: Banish, my limbs, all terror; and believe


s: That ye with Christ our God shall yet return;


s: He beareth you and with Himself recalls.


s: Laugh at the threats of sickness; scorn the blows


s: Of fate; despise the horrors of the tomb;


s: And fare ye where the risen Christ doth call."


s: in Nineveh, was reduced to beggary as the result of his zeal in


s: The early Christian epitaphs, of which many thousands exist, are


s: "To a very sweet babe, whom the angry gods gave to unending


s: "Here slumbers in the sleep of peace the sweet and innocent


s: Severianus, whose spirit is received in the light of the Lord"


s: "Laurentius was born into eternity in his twentieth year. He


s: season of the Nativity takes an opposite line of thought, and


s: "Unbidden earth shall wreathing ivy bring,


s: And fragrant herbs (the promises of spring)


s: As her first off'rings to her infant king.


s: Unlaboured harvest shall the fields adorn,


s: And clustered grapes shall blush on every thorn;


s: The knotted oaks shall showers of honey weep,


s: And through the matted grass the liquid gold shall creep."


s: circumstances of the Nativity, Origen proceeds to say: "That was


s: unclean animal out of pagan nations knew its master's crib. 'But


s: literature earlier than in the _Pseudo-Matthew Gospel_, which


s: making a _presepio_ at Greccio, to which a living ox and ass are


s: townsfolk. This act of St. Francis inaugurated the custom, still


s: observed in the Roman Church, of representing by means of waxen


s: images the whole of the Nativity manger-scene, Mother and Child


s: While the red fire and smould'ring clouds outbrake:


s: Shall from the surface to the centre shake;


s: The dreadful Judge in middle air shall spread his throne."


s: (3) For the Feast of Holy Innocents at Matins, beginning _Audit


s: (4) Also the Feast of Holy Innocents at Lauds, beginning _Salvete


s: "But stay! what light is that doth stream


s: above the north horizon. The same applies to the majority of the


s: stars in the Great Bear. Some few would sink below the horizon


s: King, a Man and a God," and is again alluded to by Prudentius in


s: universe: the four points of the compass, the 'height, breadth,


s: length and depth' of the Apostle expressed, or were expressed by,


s: Can in his swaddling bands control the damned crew."


s: In the appended Vocabulary I have inserted only those words and


s: expressions for which I can suggest correct--or, at least,


s: probable--renderings. Others will have to be left to future


s: Totochtin, the Rabbits, Gods of the Drunkards, Hymn XVII


s: There is another Nahuatl MS. of Sahagun's history in the private


s: Lord Kingsborough says in a note in his voluminous work on the


s: _Antiquities of Mexico_ that this portion of Sahagun's text was


s: Such is the history of this curious document, and with this brief


s: ayyayyo, noteuh aya tepanquizqui mitoaya.


s: _Var._ 6. This verse is omitted in the Medicean MS.


s: omocentlalique ca in calipan in yautioa ca tlatlaz ynin cal.


s: Huitzilopochtli was the well-known war-god of the Azteca, whose


s: Can maceualli                      Only a subject,


s: Can tlacatl catca.                 Only a mortal was.


s: Naualli                            A magician,


s: Tetzauitl                          A terror,


s: Atlacacemelle                      A stirrer of strife,


s: Teixcuepani                        A deceiver,


s: Quiyocoyani in yaoyotl             A maker of war,


s: Yautecani                          An arranger of battles,


s: Yautlatoani;                       A lord of battles;


s: Ca itechpa mitoaya                 And of him it was said


s: Tepan quitlaza                     That he hurled


s: In xiuhcoatl                       His flaming serpent,


s: Immamalhuaztli                     His fire stick;


s: Quitoznequi yaoyotl                Which means war,


s: Teoatl tlachinolli.                Blood and burning;


s: Malmicouaya                        Captives were slain,


s: Tlaaltilmicoaya                    Washed slaves were slain,


s: Tealtilaya impochteca.             The merchants washed them.


s: Auh inic mochichiuaya:             And thus he was arrayed:


s: Xiuhcoanauale                      Holding his serpent torch,


s: Xiuhtlalpile                       Girded with a belt,


s: Matacaxe                           Bracelets upon his arms,


s: Tzitzile                           Wearing turquoises,


s: Oyuvale.                           As a master of messengers.


s: _Var._ 6. Vitzanaoac teuhoaqui machiotla. _MS. Med._


s: ilhuiquetl, tetzauhpilla niyayalizqui aya y chocaya.


s: tlaloc. Amapanitl annauhcampa ye moquetzquetl, _q.n._, amapanitl


s: nauhcampa omoquequetz. Aoyeque naichocaya, _id est_, itlaocuyaya.


s: ticmochiuilia in motonacayouh. Catlachtoquetl, _q.n._, teuatl


s: ticmochiuilia auh in aquin timitzpinauia.


s: topanecauiloz, _id est_, in tepan mochiuaz. Ayoc inomatia ay


s: It will be observed that v. 10 is a repetition of v. 6. The word


s: festival by four small buildings near the water's edge, carefully


s: mozcaltizqui tonan tlaltecutli, ayao, ayyao, ayyaa.


s: moquichtiuiui tlalli cuecuechiuia aqui moxayaual teueuella.


s: The goddess Chimalipan is not mentioned by the authorities at my


s: The Gloss distinctly states that the mother of Huitzilopochtli is


s: ueyaquixtoc icçotl uncan in temoc in chicueyocan.


s: otipeuhque tleica in amo anualquiça tleica yn ayaualquiça.


s: netotilo in tetecuti yeua moteicnelil ca mauiztic.


s: descending there, let me not put you to shame.


s: _Ixcoçauhqui_, "the Yellow Faced," was the Mexican God of Fire.


s: The reference in v. 6 seems to be to one of the women who were


s: The hymn appears to be in memory of the leadership of Mixcoatl in


s: _Cipactonal_, the reputed discoverer of the Aztec calendar. See


s: xochinquetzalla xoyauia ay topa niaz, oay.


s: _Amimitl_, "the water-arrow," or "fish-spear," was, according to


s: The absence of a Gloss to this hymn adds to the difficulty of a


s: quitlacatilia in cozcatl quetzalli oncan yoliua, tlacatiua.


s: nopilhoan in chalmeca xicuiti in tziuactli xinechtemilica.


s: Cihuacoatl was the mythical mother of the human race. Her name,


s: fertility that she always bore two children at one lying-in.


s: essentially a goddess of fertility and reproduction. The name


s: chalchiuecatl xiquitta mach, oya moteca piltzintecutli yoanchan,


s: flowers. I am the only flower, the new, the glorious one.


s: mitzualitta moteua, noyolceuizquin tlacatl achtoquetl tlaquauaya,


s: _Var._ 3. Tezcatzoncatl tepan. 4. Axalaca.


s: Tezcatzoncatl was one of the chief gods of the native inebriating


s: _Atlaua_, mentioned by Olmos, who translates the word "Master of


s: niquiyatlacaz, niquiyamamaliz, mixcoatepetl colhoacan.


s: tezcaxocoyeua, tzoniztapaliati tlaoc xoconoctlia ho, a.


s: mixcoatepetl colhoacan, _id est_, nictepeuaz.


s: tzocotzontla, amo nomatia in omito yauyutl.


s: A, prefix, negative, or positive prefix, = _atl_, water.


s: Acatecunotzaya, XVIII, 3. Equivalent, according to the Gloss, to


s: Achalchiuhtla, XV, 3. Comp. of _atl_, and _chalchiuitl_.


s: Achtoquetl, XV, 3, 4. In the first place, first.


s: Acxolma, XIII, 2. Apparently related to _acxoyatl_, wild laurel.


s: Aça naxcan, XVIII, 5, 6; XX, 3, 4. Only now, for _çan axcan_.


s: Anneuaya, III, 2. Poetic for _in nehuatl_, "ego ipse."


s: Annotata, III, 4. Poetic for _in no-tauan_, my forefathers.


s: Annoteua, III, 2. Poetic for _in no-teuh_, my lord.


s: Anomatia, XX, 1. Not to know, to be ignorant of.


s: Aoyequene, III, 1. For _aoc yequene_, "and also no one."


s: Apana, XV, 2. Comp. of _atl_, water, and _pani_, upon, postpos.


s: Aquamotla, III, 5. From _quammomotla_, to play ball (?).


s: Atl, XIV, 4. Water. In composition, _a_.


s: Atliyollo, XX, 3, 4. From _atli_, to drink water. (?)


s: Auatic, IV, 6. Mistress of the waters (_atl_, water).


s: Ayauh, III, 6. Fog, mist; compound form of _ayauitl_.


s: Ayauhcalcatl, VI, 6. One who has charge of the mist. Compare


s: Calli, I, 5, 6. House; _calipan_, in the house.


s: Catella, III, 4. For _catel_; who indeed?


s: Caua, XIV, 7; XV, 2. To cease, to stop; to surpass; to lay down.


s: Cenpoliuiz, XIII, 7. From _cempoliui_, to perish wholly.


s: Centla, XIII, 2. For _centli_, ear of corn, dried corn.


s: Chacalhoa, XIV, 11. For _chachaloa_, to tinkle, to resound.


s: oneself; _atl_, water; _co_, postposition.


s: Chalchimichuacan, XIV, 4. "The cerulean home of the fishes."


s: Chalchiuhecatl, XIV, 9. From _chalchiuitl_, jade; metaphorically,


s: Chicueyocan, VI, 2. In eight folds. From _chicuei_, eight.


s: Chimal, XI, 2. For _chimalli_, buckler, shield.


s: Chimalticpac, XVIII, 3. "Above the shield."


s: Chocaya, III, 1, 7. From _choca_, to weep, to cry out.


s: Chocayotica, XII, 2. Adverbial from _choca_: "weepingly."


s: Cholola, XIV, 11; XX, 2. Proper name. "Place of the fugitives."


s: Ciuatontla, VI, 6. For _ciuatontli_, little woman.


s: Cochina, XIV, 12. From _cochi_, to sleep.


s: Colhoa, XIII, 1. For _Colhoacan_, proper name.


s: Coliuacan, XVII, 2; XIX, 4. Proper name, for _Colhoacan_.


s: Cuecuechiuia, V, 2. From _cuecuechoa_, to shake.


s: Cuecuexi, XI, 3. From _cuecuechoa_, to shake.


s: Cueponi, IV, 1, etc. To bloom, to blossom.


s: Cuicatl, I, 1, _et sæpe_. Hymn, song. In compos., _cuic_.


s: Eztlamiyaual, III, 2. Apparently from _eztli_, blood, race, and


s: prominent. But the etymology is not clear.


s: Yautiua, I, 5, 6. Freq. from _yaotia_, to fight.


s: Yautlatoaquetl, XV, 3, 4. _See_ _yautlatoaya_.


s: Yautlatoaya, I, 3; V. 1. From _yaotl_, war, _tlatoa_, to speak.


s: _Yautlatoani_, ruler in war, was one of the titles of


s: Icnocaua, XVI, 1, 2. To leave unprotected, as orphans.


s: Ye, VIII, 1. Already, this, but, nevertheless.


s: Yeua, I, 4, etc. For _yehuatl_, he, it, that.


s: Ihuitl, I, 3; IV, 7. A feather; _met._, a model, pattern.


s: Ihiya, II, 2. Apparently for _iye_, yes, affirmative particle.


s: Ilhuiquetl, III, 8. From _ilhuia_, to say, to call.


s: Iliuiz, XV, 5. Thoughtlessly; with negative prefix _a_, not


s: Ymocxi, I, 2. Poetic for _in micti_, from _mictia_, to slaughter.


s: Yoatzin, XV, 3, 4. Reverential of _yoalli_, night.


s: Yolceuiz, XV, 3, 4. To appease, to please.


s: Itaca, IV, 6. For _itacatl_, food, sustenance.


s: sometimes becomes _itz_, as in _itzoca_, "tener sucia la


s: Ixtlauatl, IV, 6. Open field, uncultivated region.


s: Yyaconay, I, 1. For _ayac-on-ay_, as appears by the gloss.


s: Ma, VI, 1. 1. Sign of negative, no, not. 2. Sign of imperative.


s: Macaiui, XVII, 3, 4. From _macoa_, and _i_, to drink.


s: Maceuh, XX, 3. From _maceua_, to seek for, to obtain.


s: Machiyotla, II, 6, 7. For _machiotl_, sign, example.


s: Macoa, I, 3; XVII, 3. To aid, to assist.


s: Malli, II, 3, 4, 5. Captive; one taken by hand.


s: Mama, XIV, 11. To carry a load on the shoulders.


s: Maololo, XIV, 12. From _ma-ololo_, to cover with the hand.


s: Matiuia, XIV, 11. For _matihuia_, from _mati_.


s: Ma-tonicaya, X, 1. Let it shine, let it be bright; from _tona_.


s: Mauia, II, 3, 4, 5. To give into the hands of, to deliver up.


s: Maui noyol, XIV, 11. To fear in my heart.


s: Mazatl, IV, 6. (Doubtful.) Deer; any large wild animal.


s: Mecatla, VI, 2. For _mecatl_, cord, rope.


s: Mitoaya, I, 3. For _mo-itoa-ya_, it is said, they said.


s: Mixcoatepetl, XIX, 4. The mountain or town of Mixcoatl.


s: Mixiui, XII, 1. To accouch, to bear a child.


s: Mixiuiloc, V, 1. From _mixiui_, to accouch, to bear a child.


s: Mo-cuiltonoa, VI, 5. To rejoice or enjoy greatly.


s: Moneçoya, XVIII, 3. From _neçi_, to appear.


s: Mo-neuila, XIII, 7. From _eua_, to rise up, to come forth.


s: Moquichtiuiui, V, 2. _Oquichuia_, to suffer manfully.


s: Moteua, XV, 4. Perhaps from _itoa_, to say, "it is said."


s: Mo-tonacayouh, III, 3. Our flesh; the usual form is _tonacayo_.


s: Moxayaual, V, 2. From _yaualoa_, to wander about.


s: Nacha, III, 7. For _nachcan_, there, in that place.


s: Naualachic, XIV, 9. Skilfully; from _naualchiua_, to do something


s: Nauaquia, XIV, 6. Perhaps for _nahuaque_, an epithet of divinity.


s: Nen, adv. I, 1. In vain, of no advantage.


s: Nenequia, XV, 1. To oppose, to be angry with.


s: Nepaniui, VIII, 5. To join, to unite oneself to.


s: Nepanauia, III, 9. _Nepan_, thither, and _yauh_, to go.


s: Nepapan, II, 2; XIV, 5. Diverse, varied.


s: Niuaya, X, 2. For _ni-ihua-ya_, I sent (some one).


s: No. 1. Possess, pron. my, mine. 2. Adv. also, yet.


s: Nomauilia, X, 4. To do a thing personally.


s: Nomiuh, XVIII, 4. _No-omitl_, my bone, point, arrow.


s: Nopeltzin, XIII, 5. _No-pilli-tzin_, "my revered lord."


s: Noyoco, XI, 5. Apparently for _niyoco_, "with me alone."


s: Noyollo, XV, 3. From _yollotl_, heart, soul, courage, etc.


s: Ocoyoalle, VIII, 2. "The night pine." Apparently a proper name.


s: Ocutitlana, XI, 2. "Among the pine woods."


s: Ollama, XIV, 9. To play at ball; from _olli_, a ball.


s: Olya, XVIII, 1. A form from _ololoa_, to cover or clothe oneself.


s: spot. The terminal, _co_, is the postposition, at.


s: Opuchi, XVIII, 6. "Left-handed;" by the Gloss = _tiacauh_, brave,


s: Otlacatqui, XIV, 3, 4. _Ilacati_, to be born.


s: Oya, _sæpe_. 1. An interjection. 2. Preterit of _yauh_, to go.


s: Oyatonac, II, 6, 7. For _otonac_, from _tona_, to shine.


s: Petlacalco, XX, 4. From _petlatl_, mat, _calli_, house, and _co_,


s: Pillachiualoyan, XIV, 4. Locative from _pilli-chiua_, to engender


s: Piltzintecutli, IX, 2; XIV, 9. Lord of the youths or children,


s: Poliuiz, XV, 3. From _poloa_, to destroy.


s: Pomaya, I, 2; XI, 1. Apparently for _panauia_, to conquer.


s: Potocaya, XIII, 6, 7. _Potli_, companion.


s: Quacuillo, III, 4; XX, 3. From _qua_, to eat.


s: Quatonalla, XVIII, 1. "Head bright," the helmet on the head.


s: explained in the Gloss, usually called the _quauhtzontli_, eagle


s: Quauinochitla, XI, 2. "Among the tuna trees."


s: Quetzalcoatli, XI, 3; XIV, 6. Proper name.


s: Quetzalcocox, VII, 6; VIII, 7. The pheasant.


s: Queyamica, III, 8. For _quenamican_, how there?


s: Quilaztla, XIII, 1. For Quilaztli, another name of Cihuacoatl.


s: Quilazteutl, XVIII, 2. _See_ _Quilaztla_.


s: Hence it is a form from _yauh_, _yaqui_.


s: Quiyauatla, VI, 6. Poetic for _quiauitl_, rain.


s: Tamoanchan, IV, 1, etc. "We seek our home," a name applied to the


s: Teca, III, 6. To spread out, especially of liquids.


s: Teicnellili, VI, 5. A benefit, an advantage.


s: Telipuchtla, II, 3, 4, 5. For _telpochtli_, a youth.


s: Tenamitl, I, 3. The wall of a city; hence, a town or city.


s: Tepanecatl, XI, 3. "Dweller in the palace." A proper name.


s: Tepanquizqui, I, 3. A substitute, one who represents another.


s: Tepetitlan, V, 2. "Among the mountains."


s: Tetzauiztli, I, 2. An object which causes fear. A name of


s: Huitzilopochtli. See Tezozomoc, _Cronica Mexicana_, cap.


s: should think it to be a compound of _teotl_, _conetl_,


s: _icpac_, "upon the son of the goddess." The son of


s: Teteunan was especially Centeotl, god of maize.


s: Teueuel, V, 2. Poetic from _ueue_, the ancients, the elders.


s: _teo-ome-chayaue_, "the twice divine seed-thrower," or


s: _teometl-chayaue_, the planter of the divine maguey.


s: Teumilco, XIII, 2. From _teotl_, _milli_, _co_, "in the divine


s: cornfield," fig. reference to the battlefield.


s: Teu-tlaneuiloc, III, 1. Explained by the Gloss as equivalent to


s: _onetlanauiloc_, an impersonal, passive, preterit, from


s: _naua_, "it was danced." The peculiar sacred dance


s: called _tlanaua_, performed by young girls, is described


s: Teutlalipan, IV, 8. In the divine earth.


s: Teyomi, VII, 1. From _teyo_, esteemed, honored.


s: Tezcatlipuca, XIX, 2. Proper name of a divinity.


s: Tezcatzintli, XIX, 5. Proper name from _tezcatl_, mirror.


s: Tiçatl, IV, 7. Chalk; fig., model, pattern.


s: Tlacaluaz, XIV, 7. For _tlacaluaztli_, a blow-pipe.


s: Tlacatl, II, 1; XIII, 7. Mortal, creature, person.


s: Tlaçaz, XIX, 4. From _tlaça_, to overturn.


s: Tlachco, XIV, 10. The place of the ball play.


s: Tlachinaya, XIV, 5. From _tlachia_, to see.


s: of weapons," or arsenal. It was a room in that part of the


s: temple dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, and was filled with


s: arrows, spears, etc. Sahagun, Lib. VIII, cap. 32.


s: Tlaçolteutla, XIV, 2. Name of a Mexican goddess.


s: Tlaixtotoca, X, 3. _Ixtotoca_, to search for.


s: Tlalli, XIV, 10. To place oneself; earth, ground.


s: Tlalocan, III, 5; XVI, 1. The home of Tlaloc. See p. 25.


s: Tlaloc tlamacazque, VIII, 3, 4, 6. "Dispensers of the benefits of


s: Tlalpa, XIV, 6. From _tlalli_, earth, and _pan_.


s: Tlamocoyoualca, XIX, 1, 2. Apparently from _tlamaca_, to serve.


s: Tlani, XIV, 7. Below; _i-tlani_, below it.


s: Tlapoalli, III, 9. To number, to reckon.


s: Tlaquaua, XV, 3, 4. To make strong, or hard.


s: Tlatia, XV, 1. 1. To hide oneself. 2. To burn oneself.


s: Tlatoa, XIV, 7, 11. To sing, to chant, to speak.


s: Tlatol, III, 8. For _tlatolli_, speech, discourses, prayers.


s: Tlatonazqui, XIV, 5. From _tona_, to shine.


s: Tlauana, XV, 1. To drink wine (_octli_),


s: Tlauia, XV, 1. To appear red or shining.


s: Tlauizcalle, XIV, 5; XIX, 2. Master of the house of the dawn. The


s: Tlaxotecatl teuhtla, I, 4. _See_ Tlaxotla.


s: Tlaxotla, I, 3. Passive form from _tlaça_, to hurl, to throw.


s: Huitzilopochtli was specifically "the hurler." _See_ Notes to


s: Tocuilechcatl, II, 2. _To_, our, _cuilia_, to paint, adorn; "our


s: Tonanaya, XIII, 5. Reduplicated for _tonaya_, to shine forth.


s: Tonaqui, I, 1. A form from _tona_, to shine.


s: Tozquiuaua, XIX, 5. From _tozquitl_, voice.


s: Tziuaquimiuh, VII, 3. "My havresac made of tzihuac fibres."


s: Tzocotzontla, XX, 1. From _tzocoton_, little, _tzontli_, hair.


s: refers figuratively to the flames blazing upwards like hair


s: Tzotzonia, XIX, 5. To play on an instrument.


s: Ualitla, XV, 4. Comp. of _uallauh_ and _itla_.


s: Uelmatia, III, 4. To appear well, to be well.


s: Ueponi, VII, 1. _Uepollotl_, kin, relations.


s: Uexcaitoa, II, 1. To offer harm, to curse.


s: Xatenonotza, VI, 6. For _xi-tenonotza_, call ye upon, pray ye to.


s: Ximiçotica, XVI, 1, 2. From _iça_, to wake up, awake.


s: laurel," or decorated with wild laurel, a plant probably


s: Xochiquetzal, XIV, 11. Proper name of a deity.


s: Xochitla, IV, 1, etc. Flowers, place of, or abundance of. From


s: Xochitlicacan, XIV, 3, 5. The place of flowers.


s: Xoconoctli, XIX, 5. From _xocotl_, fruit, apple.


s: Xocoyeua, XIX, 5. From _xococtl_, fruit.


s: Amantlan; a quarter of the city of Tenochtitlan,


s: Ancient god, the, a name of the god of fire,


s: Bustamente, his edition of Sahagun's _Historia_,


s: Chalchiucihuatl, a name of the goddess Chicomecoatl,


s: Chicomolotl, a name of the goddess Chicomecoatl,


s: Hurler, the; epithet applied to Huitzilopochtli,


s: Inquisition, action on Sahagun's Historia,


s: Jourdanet, Dr., his translation of Sahagun's _Historia_,


s: Lying-in, goddesses of. _See_ Childbirth.


s: Naualpilli, "noble magician," a name of Tlaloc,


s: "Obsidian butterfly," a kind of ornament,


s: Parturition, goddess of. _See_ Childbirth.


s: Simeon, Remi, his notes to Sahagun's _Historia_,


s: Teatlahuiani, a name of the god of the pulque,


s: Tenochtitlan, ancient name of the city of Mexico, temple of,


s: Tequechmecaniani, a name of the god of drunkenness,


s: Tochtli, the rabbit, as a god of drunkards,


s: Xochitlycacan, name of the earthly Paradise, its meaning,


s: Youallauan, the nocturnal tippler, high priest of Totec,


s: 'Twas on the shores that round our coast


s: That I found alone, on a piece of stone,


s: And I heard this wight on the shore recite,


s: And he shook his fists and he tore his hair.


s: For I couldn't help thinking the man had been drinking,


s: Then he gave a hitch to his trousers, which


s: "And pretty nigh all o' the crew was drowned


s: "There was me and the cook and the captain bold,


s: "For a month we'd neither wittles nor drink,


s: So, we drawed a lot, and, accordin' shot


s: "The next lot fell to the _Nancy's_ mate,


s: Then we wittled free, did the cook and me,


s: "For I loved that cook as a brother, I did,


s: But we'd both be blowed if we'd either be stowed


s: "'I'll be eat if you dines off me,' says Tom,


s: 'I'm boiled if I die, my friend,' quoth I,


s: For don't you see that you can't cook _me_,


s: "So, he boils the water, and takes the salt


s: (Which he never forgot), and some chopped shalot,


s: "'Come here,' says he, with a proper pride,


s: "And he stirred it round and round and round,


s: When I ups with his heels, and smothers his squeals


s: The last of his chops, why I almost drops,


s: He's grown quite fair--has auburn hair--


s: (His only friends were pigs and cows and


s: Though hardly knowing what a crown was--


s: (Of course I don't know what the rest meant,


s: Declines, with thanks, my well-meant offer!


s: Said I. "You'll waste it, lose it, lend it.


s: In doubting friends who wouldn't harm them;


s: Top boots and cords provoked compassion,


s: "He didn't think the style would suit him!"


s: But no--the clown my prospects blights--


s: He'd learnt the meaning of "commission."


s: The first was a highly-accomplished "bones,"


s: Who danced an excellent break-down "flap."


s: "Three casks, from somebody else's stores,


s: Their heads just topping the briny wave.


s: It's quite sufficient that you're a king:


s: "Come, lower the Admiral's gig," he cried,


s: The admiral pulled to the islands three;


s: The admiral, pleased at his welcome warm,


s: I come, if you please, with the best intents,


s: The kings were pleased as they well could be;


s: To the Lord at the head of the Government,


s: Three islands, _vert_, on a field of blue,


s: And, see, on the good ship's crowded deck,


s: A bishop, who's going out there on spec.


s: And let us all hope that blissful things


s: Who twirled and wriggled, skipped and hopped,


s: With _battements_, cuts, and _pas de basque_


s: "Come, walk like this," the dancer said,


s: "Stick out your toes--stick in your head.


s: From the ranks, one day, cried Private James


s: "I've a strange idea, each other's names


s: Such things have been," said Private James.


s: "Pish!" proudly sneered his General John,


s: Would sneer at a fixed idea that's drove


s: Guy saw her, and loved her, with reason,


s: "You're a turbaned old Turk, and malignant;


s: ("Scale" and "balance" is punning, you see.)


s: "Come provide me with something to eat!"


s: Thou beloved little friend of our youth!"


s: There's the nightingale Doh-Reh-Mi-Fah!"


s: They endeavored to make themselves fair,


s: (It was wool, but they thought it was hair).


s: And they ogled, and giggled, and flushed,


s: And they chuckled, and flirted, and blushed


s: (At least, if they could, they'd have blushed).


s: Said, "Alack-a-Dey, what does this mean?"


s: "It's your blood we desire, pretty dears--


s: We have come for our dinners, my dears!"


s: He waltzed, and he galloped, and lanced,


s: As she worked out the scheme she had planned--


s: "When its fooled to the top of its bent,


s: Pond answered, "Of course it's quite clear;"


s: While Pond slowly muttered, "Hear, hear."


s: So they take up their hats and their sticks,


s: But still, as all his friends would own,


s: The maid, though pleased at first, I know,


s: She shook his hand, and said "Good-bye;"


s: "Oh, dear," said she, "you're just too late,


s: I've often thought that headstrong youths,


s: "Two dukes would make their Bowles a bride,


s: "Oh, dear," said she, "that alters quite


s: Bob rubbed his eyes, and made 'em blink,


s: The phantom said, "You'll have all this,


s: It was a robber's daughter, and her name was Alice Brown;


s: Her father was the terror of a small Italian town;


s: Her mother was a foolish, weak, but amiable old thing;


s: But it isn't of her parents that I'm going for to sing.


s: As Alice was a-sitting at her window-sill one day,


s: A beautiful young gentleman he chanced to pass that way;


s: She cast her eyes upon him, and he looked so good and true,


s: That she thought, "I could be happy with a gentleman like you!"


s: And every morning passed her house that cream of gentlemen,


s: She knew she might expect him at a quarter unto ten,


s: A sorter in the Custom-house, it was his daily road


s: (The Custom-house was fifteen minutes' walk from her abode).


s: But Alice was a pious girl, who knew it wasn't wise


s: To look at strange young sorters with expressive purple eyes;


s: So she sought the village priest, to whom her family confessed,


s: The priest by whom their little sins were carefully assessed.


s: "Oh, holy father," Alice said, "'twould grieve you, would it not?


s: Of all unhappy sinners I'm the most unhappy one!"


s: The padre said, "Whatever have you been and gone and done?"


s: "I have helped mamma to steal a little kiddy from its dad,


s: I've assisted dear papa in cutting up a little lad,


s: I've planned a little burglary and forged a little check,


s: And slain a little baby for the coral on its neck!"


s: The worthy pastor heaved a sigh and dropped a silent tear--


s: And said, "You mustn't judge yourself too heavily, my dear--


s: It's wrong to murder babies, little corals for to fleece:


s: But sins like that one expiates at half-a-crown apiece.


s: We mustn't be too hard upon these little girlish tricks--


s: Let's see--five crimes at half-a-crown--exactly twelve-and-six."


s: "Oh, father," little Alice cried, "your kindness makes me weep,


s: You do these little things for me so singularly cheap--


s: Your thoughtful liberality I never can forget;


s: But, O, there is another crime I haven't mentioned yet!"


s: "A pleasant-looking gentleman, with pretty purple eyes,


s: I've noticed at my window, as I've sat a-catching flies:


s: He passes by it every day as certain as can be--


s: I blush to say I've winked at him and he has winked at me!"


s: "For shame," said Father Paul, "my erring daughter! On my word


s: This is the most distressing news that I have ever heard.


s: Why, naughty girl, your excellent papa has pledged your hand


s: To a promising young robber, the lieutenant of his band!


s: "This dreadful piece of news will pain your worthy parents so!


s: They are the most remunerative customers I know;


s: For many years they've kept starvation from my doors,


s: I never knew so criminal a family as yours!


s: "The common country folk in this insipid neighborhood


s: Have nothing to confess, they're so ridiculously good;


s: And if you marry any one respectable at all,


s: Why, you'll reform, and what will then become of Father Paul?"


s: The worthy priest, he up and drew his cowl upon his crown,


s: And started off in haste to tell the news to Robber Brown;


s: To tell him how his daughter, who now was for marriage fit,


s: Had winked upon a sorter, who reciprocated it.


s: Good Robber Brown he muffled up his anger pretty well,


s: He said "I have a notion, and that notion I will tell;


s: I will nab this gay young sorter, terrify him into fits,


s: And get my gentle wife to chop him into little bits.


s: "I've studied human nature, and I know a thing or two,


s: Though a girl may fondly love a living gent, as many do--


s: A feeling of disgust upon her senses there will fall


s: When she looks upon his body chopped particularly small."


s: He traced that gallant sorter to a still suburban square;


s: He watched his opportunity and seized him unaware;


s: He took a life-preserver and he hit him on the head,


s: And Mrs. Brown dissected him before she went to bed.


s: And pretty little Alice grew more settled in her mind,


s: She never more was guilty of a weakness of the kind,


s: Until at length good Robber Brown bestowed her pretty hand


s: On the promising young robber, the lieutenant of his band.


s: (Although his harem would have shocked her);


s: Which threw him straight into a sharp pet;


s: Who felt his pulse, looked up his tongue,


s: And hummed and hawed, and then inquired:


s: "Where is the pain, that long has preyed


s: "Come, nonsense!" said good Doctor Brown,


s: Come, come, sir, please to be explicit."


s: "Then take you this, and take you that--


s: Your blood flows sluggish in its channel--


s: "You'll send for me, when you're in need--


s: My name is Brown--your life I've saved it!"


s: And drove right through the Doctor's chest


s: "Now see the mischief that you've done,--


s: _He's_ short and stout--_I'm_ tall and wizen;


s: You've been and run the wrong one through,


s: "But, p'r'aps, kind Turk, you're full inside?"


s: "There's room," said he, "for any number."


s: In proud Stamboul they sleep their slumber.


s: If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:


s: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham.


s: Each little fault of temper and each social defect


s: In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.


s: To all their little weaknesses I open people's eyes


s: And little plans to snub the self-sufficient I devise;


s: I love my fellow creatures--I do all the good I can--


s: Yet everybody say I'm such a disagreeable man!


s: To compliments inflated I've a withering reply;


s: And vanity I always do my best to mortify;


s: A charitable action I can skilfully dissect:


s: And interested motives I'm delighted to detect.


s: I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,


s: And I carefully compare it with the income tax returns;


s: But to benefit humanity, however much I plan,


s: Yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!


s: I'm sure I'm no ascetic: I'm as pleasant as can be;


s: You'll always find me ready with a crushing repartee;


s: I've an irritating chuckle; I've a celebrated sneer;


s: To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two;


s: I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do--


s: But although I try to make myself as pleasant as I can,


s: I am the very pattern of a modern Major-Gineral.


s: I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral;


s: I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,


s: From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;


s: I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical,


s: I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,


s: About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,


s: With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.


s: I'm very good at integral and differential calculus,


s: I know the scientific names of beings animalculous,


s: In short in matters vegetable, animal and mineral,


s: I am the very model of a modern Major-Gineral.


s: I know our mythic history--King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's,


s: I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,


s: I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,


s: In conies I can floor peculiarities parabolous.


s: I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,


s: I know the croaking chorus from the "Frogs" of Aristophanes,


s: Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,


s: And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform.


s: In fact when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin,"


s: When I can tell at sight a Chassepot rifle from a javelin,


s: When such affairs as _sorties_ and surprises I'm more wary at,


s: And when I know precisely what is meant by Commissariat,


s: When I have learn what progress has been made in modern gunnery,


s: When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery,


s: In short when I've a smattering of elementary strategy,


s: You'll say a better Major-Gener_al_ has never _sat_ a gee--


s: For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,


s: Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century,


s: But still in learning vegetable, animal and mineral,


s: I am the very model of a modern Major-Gineral.


s: If you want a receipt for that popular mystery


s: Take all the remarkable people in history,


s: The pluck of Lord Nelson on board of the _Victory_--


s: The humor of Fielding (which sounds contradictory)--


s: The grace of Mozart, that unparalleled musico--


s: Wit of Macaulay, who wrote of Queen Anne--


s: The pathos of Paddy, as rendered by Boucicault--


s: The dash of a D'Orsay, divested of quackery--


s: Take of these elements all that are fusible,


s: Melt them all down in a pipkin or crucible,


s: Set them to simmer and take off the scum,


s: If you want a receipt for this soldierlike paragon,


s: Get at the wealth of the Czar (if you can)--


s: The family pride of a Spaniard from Arragon--


s: A smack of Lord Waterford, reckless and rollicky--


s: The keen penetration of Paddington Pollaky--


s: The genius strategic of Cæsar or Hannibal--


s: Skill of Lord Wolseley in thrashing a cannibal


s: Flavor of Hamlet--the Stranger, a touch of him--


s: Little of Manfred, (but not very much of him)--


s: Beadle of Burlington--Richardson's show;


s: As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,


s: I've got a little list--I've got a little list


s: Of social offenders who might well be underground,


s: And who never would be missed--who never would be missed!


s: There's the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs--


s: All people who have flabby hands and irritating laughs--


s: All children who are up in dates, and floor you with 'em flat--


s: They'd none of 'em be missed--they'd none of 'em be missed!


s: And the piano organist--I've got him on the list!


s: And the people who eat peppermint and puff it in your face,


s: They never would be missed--they never would be missed!


s: All centuries but this, and every country but his own;


s: And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy,


s: And who doesn't think she waltzes, but would rather like to try;


s: And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist--


s: I don't think she'd be missed--I'm _sure_ she'd not be missed!


s: And that _Nisi Prius_ nuisance, who just now is rather rife,


s: The Judicial humorist--I've got _him_ on the list!


s: All funny fellows, comic men, and clowns of private life--


s: They'd none of 'em be missed--they'd none of them be missed.


s: And apologetic statesmen of the compromising kind,


s: (The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to _you_!)


s: But it really doesn't matter whom you put upon the list,


s: For they'd none of 'em be missed--they'd none of 'em be missed!


s: When a felon's not engaged in his employment


s: Ah, take one consideration with another,


s: When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling,


s: When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime,


s: He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling,


s: When the coster's finished jumping on his mother,


s: The air is charged with amatory numbers--


s: Soft madrigals, and dreamy lovers' lays.


s: Peace, peace, old heart! Why waken from its slumbers


s: Time was when Love and I were well acquainted.


s: Time was when we walked ever hand in hand;


s: A saintly youth, with worldly thought untainted,


s: None better-loved than I in all the land!


s: Time was, when maidens of the noblest station,


s: Had I a headache? sighed the maids assembled;


s: Had I a cold? welled forth the silent tear;


s: Did I look pale? then half a parish trembled;


s: And when I coughed all thought the end was near!


s: I, had no care--no jealous doubts hung o'er me--


s: Fled gilded dukes and belted earls before me!


s: I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor,


s: And I polished up the handle of the big front door.


s: I polished up that handle so successfullee


s: That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!


s: That they gave me the post of a junior clerk.


s: I served the writs with a smile so bland,


s: And I copied all the letters in a big round hand.


s: I copied all the letters in a hand so free,


s: I wore clean collars and a brand-new suit


s: And that Pass Examination did so well for me,


s: Of legal knowledge I acquired such a grip


s: And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.


s: By making me the Ruler of the Queen's Navee!


s: If you want to rise to the top of the tree,


s: If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool,


s: Be careful to be guided by this golden rule--


s: Stick close to your desks and _never go to sea_,


s: And you all may be Rulers of the Queen's Navee!


s: Is it weakness of intellect, birdie?" I cried,


s: "Or a rather tough worm in your little inside?"


s: With a shake of his poor little head he replied,


s: He slapped at his chest, as he sat on that bough,


s: And a cold perspiration bespangled his brow,


s: He sobbed and he sighed, and a gurgle he gave,


s: Then he threw himself into the billowy wave,


s: And an echo arose from the suicide's grave--


s: Now I feel just as sure as I'm sure that my name


s: That 'twas blighted affection that made him exclaim,


s: And if you remain callous and obdurate, I


s: Shall perish as he did, and you will know why,


s: Though I probably shall not exclaim as I die,


s: I know a youth who loves a little maid--


s: (Hey, but his face is a sight for to see!)


s: Silent is he, for he's modest and afraid--


s: (Hey, but he's timid as a youth can be!)


s: I know a maid who loves a gallant youth,


s: (Hey, but she sickens as the days go by!)


s: She cannot tell him all the sad, sad truth--


s: (Hey, but I think that little maid will die!)


s: What in the world should the poor soul do?


s: Daily he goes for to wail--for to weep--


s: (Hey, but he's wretched as a youth can be!)


s: Daily she goes for to weep--for to wail--


s: If I were the youth I should offer her my name--


s: (Hey, but her face is a sight for to see!)


s: If I were the maid I should feed his honest flame--


s: (Hey, but he's bashful as a youth can be!)


s: If I were the youth I should speak to her to-day--


s: If I were the maid I should meet the lad half way--


s: (For I really do believe that timid youth will die'!)


s: I've learnt what that poor soul ought to do!


s: But there'd be the deuce to pay in the Lords


s: Prithee, pretty maiden--prithee, tell me true


s: (Hey, but I'm doleful, willow, willow waly!)


s: Have you e'er a lover a-dangling after you?


s: Gentle sir, my heart is frolicsome and free--


s: (Hey but he's doleful, willow, willow waly!)


s: Prithee, pretty maiden, will you marry me?


s: (Hey, but I'm hopeful, willow, willow waly!)


s: I may say, at once, I'm a man of propertee


s: Gentle sir, although to marry I design--


s: As yet I do not know you, and so I must decline.


s: Was loved by an Ape, in the days gone by--


s: For the Maid, when his love took formal shape,


s: That he stammered an apology and made his 'scape,


s: With a view to rise in the social scale,


s: He shaved his bristles, and he docked his tail,


s: He grew moustachios, and he took his tub,


s: He bought white ties, and he bought dress suits,


s: He crammed his feet into bright tight boots,


s: And to start his life on a brand-new plan,


s: For the Maiden fair, whom the monkey craved,


s: If love is a nettle that makes you smart,


s: His energetic fist should be ready to resist


s: His nose should pant and his lips should curl,


s: His cheeks should flame and his brow should furl,


s: His bosom should heave and his heart should glow,


s: And his fist be ever ready for a knock-down blow.


s: His eyes should flash with an inborn fire,


s: He never should bow down to a domineering frown,


s: His foot should stamp and his throat should growl,


s: His hair should twirl and his face should scowl:


s: His eyes should flash and his breast protrude,


s: And this should be his customary attitude!


s: Sad is that woman's lot who, year by year,


s: Sees, one by one, her beauties disappear;


s: As Time, grown weary of her heart-drawn sighs,


s: Herself compelled, in life's uncertain gloamings,


s: To wreathe her wrinkled brow with well saved "combings"--


s: Reduced, with rouge, lipsalve, and pearly grey,


s: To "make up" for lost time, as best she may!


s: If you want a proud foe to "make tracks"--


s: We've a first class assortment of magic;


s: We keep an extremely small prophet, a prophet


s: In the first and foremost flight, ha, ha!


s: Dr. Belville was regarded as the Crichton of his age:


s: His tragedies were reckoned much too thoughtful for the stage;


s: His poems held a noble rank, although it's very true


s: That, being very proper, they were read by very few.


s: He was a famous Painter, too, and shone upon the "line,"


s: And even Mr. Ruskin came and worshipped at his shrine;


s: But, alas, the school he followed was heroically high--


s: The kind of Art men rave about, but very seldom buy--


s: This very great--this very good--this very gifted man?"


s: But nobody could hit upon a practicable plan!


s: He was a great Inventor, and discovered, all alone,


s: A plan for making everybody's fortune but his own;


s: For, in business, an Inventor's little better than a fool,


s: And my highly gifted friend was no exception to the rule.


s: His poems--people read them in the Quarterly Reviews--


s: His pictures--they engraved them in the _Illustrated News_--


s: At last the point was given up in absolute despair,


s: When a distant cousin died, and he became a millionaire,


s: With a county seat in Parliament, a moor or two of grouse,


s: And a taste for making inconvenient speeches in the House!


s: _Then_ it flashed upon Britannia that the fittest of rewards


s: Was, to take him from the Commons and to put him in the Lords!


s: And who so fit to sit in it, deny it if you can,


s: As this very great--this very good--this very gifted man?


s: They will see that I'm freely gold-laced


s: When I went to the Bar as a very young man,


s: I'll never assume that a rogue or a thief


s: Because his attorney has sent me a brief


s: I'll never throw dust in a juryman's eyes


s: Or hoodwink a judge who is not over-wise


s: Or assume that the witnesses summoned in force


s: In Exchequer, Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, or Divorce,


s: Have perjured themselves as a matter of course


s: Ere I go into court I will read my brief through


s: And I'll never take work I'm unable to do


s: My learned profession I'll never disgrace


s: When I haven't been there to attend to the case


s: In other professions in which men engage


s: Professional license, if carried too far,


s: Your chance of promotion will certainly mar


s: And I fancy the rule might apply to the Bar


s: Oh! a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon,


s: From morning to night he's so joyous and bright,


s: He's so quaint and so terse, both in prose and in verse;


s: Yet though people forgive his transgression,


s: There are one or two rules that all Family Fools


s: Must observe, if they love their profession.


s: If you wish to succeed as a jester, you'll need


s: What is all right for B would quite scandalize C


s: And D may be dull, and E's very thick skull


s: While F is F sharp, and will cry with a carp,


s: That he's known your best joke from his cradle!


s: I have known that old joke from my cradle!"


s: If your master is surly, from getting up early


s: An inopportune joke is enough to provoke


s: Him to give you, at once, a month's warning


s: Then if you refrain, he is at you again,


s: He'll ask then and there, with an insolent stare,


s: If you know that you're paid to be funny?"


s: Comes a Bishop, maybe, or a solemn D.D.--


s: Better not pull his hair--don't stick pins in his chair;


s: If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,


s: You may get a bland smile from these sages;


s: But should it, by chance, be imported from France,


s: Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!


s: Half-a-crown is stopped out of his wages!


s: Though your head it may rack with a bilious attack,


s: And your senses with toothache you're losing,


s: Don't be mopy and flat--they don't fine you for that,


s: Though your wife ran away with a soldier that day,


s: Bless your heart, they don't mind--they're exceedingly kind--


s: They don't blame you--as long as you're funny!


s: They don't blame you--so long as you're funny!


s: I've wisdom from the East and from the West,


s: You may find it in the jeering of a jest,


s: I can teach you with a quip, if I've a mind!


s: I can trick you into learning with a laugh;


s: Oh, winnow all my folly, and you'll find


s: A grain or two of truth among the chaff!


s: I can set a braggart quailing with a quip,


s: But his laughter has an echo that is grim.


s: When they're offered to the world in merry guise,


s: Unpleasant truths are swallowed with a will--


s: For he who'd make his fellow creatures wise


s: Should always gild the philosophic pill!


s: And think of things that would astonish you.


s: They're got to leave that brain outside.


s: And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.


s: Dark is the night to Earth's poor daughters


s: When I, good friends, was called to the Bar,


s: But I was, as many young barristers are,


s: I'd a swallow-tail coat of a beautiful blue--


s: For I thought I should never hit on a chance


s: But I soon got tired of third class journeys,


s: So I fell in love with a rich attorney's


s: "You shall reap the reward of your enterprise,


s: You'll soon get used to her looks," said he,


s: The rich attorney was as good as his word:


s: At length I became as rich as the Gurneys--


s: And now, if you please, I'm ready to try


s: I stole the Prince, and I brought him here,


s: Both of the babes were strong and stout,


s: Time sped, and when at the end of a year


s: Which of the two was his offspring dear,


s: Which was which he could never make out,


s: Well, one of the two (who will soon be here)--


s: But _which_ of the two is not quite clear--


s: All probable, possible shadow of doubt--


s: I shipped, d'ye see, in a Revenue sloop,


s: But she proved to be a Frigate--and she up with her ports,


s: Then our Captain he up and he says, says he,


s: But to fight a French fal-lal--it's like hittin' of a gal--


s: So we up with our helm, and we scuds before the breeze,


s: Which was grateful of the poor Mounseer,


s: Which was grateful of the poor Mounseer!


s: And I'll wager in their joy they kissed each other's cheek


s: The amateur tenor, whose vocal villanies


s: The billiard sharp whom any one catches,


s: As bright will shine Great Britain's rays,


s: If you're anxious for to shine in the high æsthetic line,


s: You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms,


s: The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter


s: "If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for _me_,


s: Why, what a very singularly deep young man


s: Be eloquent in praise of the very dull old days which have


s: Of course you will pooh-pooh whatever's fresh and new, and


s: And that art stopped short in the cultivated court


s: "If that's not good enough for him which is good enough for _me_,


s: Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must


s: An attachment _a la_ Plato for a bashful young potato,


s: Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle


s: "If he's content with a vegetable love which would certainly not


s: Why, what a most particularly pure young man


s: When all goes right and nothing goes wrong,


s: They tickle my tastes, they feed my fads,


s: They give me this and they give me that,


s: And I've nothing whatever to grumble at!


s: Then we probably review the household troops--


s: With the usual "Shalloo humps!" and "Shalloo hoops!"


s: (It's rather a nervous duty--he's a touchy little man)


s: He is shaky in his spelling, so we help him if we can.


s: Or we polish the Regalia and the Coronation Plate--


s: Or we run on little errands for the Ministers of State.


s: Yet the duties are delightful, and the privileges great;


s: Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State!


s: Then we help a fellow creature on his path


s: Or we dress and toddle off in semi-State


s: Marching hither, marching thither, up and down and to and fro,


s: (And it generally happens that he hasn't far to go).


s: With the gratifying feeling that our duty has been done.


s: But of pleasures there are many and of troubles there are none;


s: Is the gratifying feeling that our duty has been done!


s: Though I own that my heart has been ranging,


s: And you don't find two Mondays together.


s: "Oh, kiss me, kiss me, kiss me, kiss me,


s: Of scissors and needles, nails and knives,


s: Though he charmed iron, it charmed not him,


s: From needles and nails and knives he'd turn,


s: For he'd set his love on a Silver Churn!


s: The needles opened their well drilled eyes,


s: The pen-knives felt "shut up," no doubt,


s: The scissors declared themselves "cut out."


s: The kettles they boiled with rage, 'tis said,


s: Till a hammer came up--and drove it home,


s: PAUL. A HERALD OF THE CROSS, by Florence Morse Kingsley, "A vivid


s: fitting companion to that other wonderful book, 'Black Beauty.'"


s: THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, _as John Bunyan wrote it_. A fac-simile


s: THE FAIREST OF THE FAIR, by Hildegarde Hawthorne. "The


s: A LOVER IN HOMESPUN, by F. Clifford Smith. Interesting tales of


s: adventure and home life in Canada. Cloth, 12mo., 75 cents.


s: ANNIE BESANT: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Cloth, 12mo., 368 pages,


s: THE GRAMMAR OF PALMISTRY, by Katharine St. Hill. Cloth, 12mo.,


s: WHAT WOMEN SHOULD KNOW. A woman's book about women. By Mrs. E.B.


s: PREPARATION FOR MOTHERHOOD, by Elisabeth R. Scovil. Cloth, 12mo.,


s: SHAKESPEARE'S COMPLETE WORKS, with a biographical sketch by Mary


s: Cowden Clark, embellished with 64 Boydell, and numerous other


s: THE DORE BIBLE GALLERY. A complete panorama of Bible History,


s: containing 100 full-page engravings by Gustave Dore.


s: MILTON'S PARADISE LOST, with 50 full-page engravings by Gustave


s: DANTE'S INFERNO, with 75 full-page engravings by Gustave Dore.


s: DANTE'S PURGATORY AND PARADISE, with 60 full-page engravings by


s: Cloth, ornamental, large quarto (9 x 12 inches), each $2.00.


s: TENNYSON'S IDYLLS OF THE KING, with 37 full-page engravings by


s: THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with


s: BUNYAN'S PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, with 100 engravings by Frederick


s: Barnard and others. Cloth, small quarto (9 x 10 inches), $1.00.


s: MY ODD LITTLE FOLK, some rhymes and verses about them, by Malcolm


s: BLACK BEAUTY, by Anna Sewell, with nearly 50 original engravings.


s: SCARLET LETTER, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, with numerous original


s: ROBINSON CRUSOE: (Chiefly in words of one syllable). His life and


s: ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, with 49 illustrations by John


s: Tenniel. "The most delightful of children's stories. Elegant and


s: BUNYAN'S PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, with 50 full page and text


s: A CHILD'S STORY OF THE BIBLE, with 72 full page illustrations.


s: SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, with 50 illustrations. The father of the


s: candidates for the office; as well as the ablest of the Cabinet


s: accomplished by steady perseverance and indomitable pluck.


s: Addresses on common vices and their results.


s: beautiful delineation of an ideal life from the conversion to the


s: itself on the bosom of infinite love and enjoy in prayer "a peace


s: Selections from the writings of well-known religious authors,


s: Prof. John Bach McMaster (University of Pennsylvania).


s: Full Cloth, ivory finish, ornamental inlaid sides and back, boxed


s: introduction by the Rev. Alfred Ainger, M.D.


s: housewives on the elements of crystalization.


s: AMERICAN POLITICS (non-Partisan), by Hon. Thomas V. Cooper. A


s: NAMES FOR CHILDREN, by Elisabeth Robinson Scovil, author of "The


s: Edited with Introduction, Notes and a Plan of Study


s: E.C. Stedman styles it the "Flower of American Idyls."


s: Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.


s: Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean


s: Darkened by shadows of earth, but reflecting an image of heaven?


s: Waste are those pleasant farms, and the farmers forever departed!


s: In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas,


s: Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pre


s: Sea-fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty Atlantic


s: Scarlet and blue and green, with distaffs spinning the golden


s: Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors


s: Reverend walked he among them; and up rose matrons and maidens,


s: Hailing his slow approach with words of affectionate welcome.


s: Softly the Angelus sounded, and over the roofs of the village


s: Columns of pale blue smoke, like clouds of incense ascending,


s: Rose from a hundred hearths, the homes of peace and contentment.


s: Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers,--


s: Dwelt in the love of God and of man. Alike were they free from


s: Somewhat apart from the village, and nearer the Basin of Minas,


s: Benedict Bellefontaine, the wealthiest farmer of Grand-Pre,


s: Dwelt on his goodly acres; and with him, directing his household,


s: Hearty and hale was he, an oak that is covered with snow-flakes;


s: Flagons of home-brewed ale, ah! fair in sooth was the maiden.


s: Brought in the olden time from France, and since, as an heirloom,


s: But a celestial brightness--a more ethereal beauty--


s: Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession,


s: Firmly builded with rafters of oak, the house of the farmer


s: Stood on the side of a hill commanding the sea; and a shady


s: Sycamore grew by the door, with a woodbine wreathing around it.


s: Rudely carved was the porch, with seats beneath; and a footpath


s: Led through an orchard wide, and disappeared in the meadow.


s: Under the sycamore-tree were hives overhung by a penthouse,


s: Such as the traveler sees in regions remote by the roadside,


s: Built o'er a box for the poor, or the blessed image of Mary.


s: Under the sheltering eaves, led up to the odorous cornloft.


s: There too the dove-cot stood, with its meek and innocent inmates


s: Murmuring ever of love; while above in the variant breezes


s: Numberless noisy weathercocks rattled and sang of mutation.


s: Thus, at peace with God and the world, the farmer of Grand-Pre


s: Lived on his sunny farm, and Evangeline governed his household.


s: Many a youth, as he knelt in the church and opened his missal,


s: Fixed his eyes upon her as the saint of his deepest devotion;


s: Happy was he who might touch her hand or the hem of her garment!


s: Many a suitor came to her door, by the darkness befriended,


s: And, as he knocked and waited to hear the sound of her footsteps,


s: Bolder grew, and pressed her hand in the dance as he whispered


s: Hurried words of love, that seemed a part of the music.


s: But among all who came young Gabriel only was welcome;


s: Gabriel Lajeunesse, the son of Basil the blacksmith,


s: Who was a mighty man in the village, and honored of all men;


s: For since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations,


s: Has the craft of the smith been held in repute by the people.


s: Swiftly they hurried away to the forge of Basil the blacksmith.


s: There at the door they stood, with wondering eyes to behold him


s: Take in his leathern lap the hoof of the horse as a plaything,


s: Oft on autumnal eves, when without in the gathering darkness


s: And as its panting ceased, and the sparks expired in the ashes,


s: Merrily laughed, and said they were nuns going into the chapel.


s: Oft on sledges in winter, as swift as the swoop of the eagle,


s: Down the hillside bounding, they glided away o'er the meadow.


s: Thus passed a few swift years, and they no longer were children.


s: Harvests were gathered in; and wild with the winds of September


s: Wrestled the trees of the forest, as Jacob of old with the angel.


s: Bees, with prophetic instinct of want, had hoarded their honey


s: Till the hives overflowed; and the Indian hunters asserted


s: Cold would the winter be, for thick was the fur of the foxes.


s: Now recommenced the reign of rest and affection and stillness.


s: Waving his bushy tail, and urging forward the stragglers;


s: Regent of flocks was he when the shepherd slept; their protector,


s: Laden with briny hay, that filled the air with its odor.


s: Painted with brilliant dyes, and adorned with tassels of crimson,


s: Patiently stood the cows meanwhile, and yielded their udders


s: Unto the milkmaid's hand; whilst loud and in regular cadence


s: Into the sounding pails the foaming streamlets descended.


s: In-doors, warm by the wide-mouthed fireplace, idly the farmer


s: Nodding and mocking along the wall with gestures fantastic,


s: Darted his own huge shadow, and vanished away into darkness.


s: Faces, clumsily carved in oak, on the back of his arm-chair,


s: Such as at home, in the olden time, his fathers before him


s: Sang in their Norman orchards and bright Burgundian vineyards.


s: Close at her father's side was the gentle Evangeline seated,


s: Spinning flax for the loom that stood in the corner behind her.


s: As in a church, when the chant of the choir at intervals ceases,


s: Close by the chimney-side, which is always empty without thee;


s: Take from the shelf overhead thy pipe and the box of tobacco;


s: Never so much thyself art thou as when, through the curling


s: "Benedict Bellefontaine, thou hast ever thy jest and thy ballad!


s: Ever in cheerfullest mood art thou, when others are filled with


s: Gloomy forebodings of ill, and see only ruin before them.


s: On the morrow to meet in the church, where his Majesty's mandate


s: Will be proclaimed as law in the land. Alas! in the mean time


s: Many surmises of evil alarm the hearts of the people."


s: Then made answer the farmer:--"Perhaps some friendlier purpose


s: Brings these ships to our shores. Perhaps the harvests in England


s: Many already have fled to the forest, and lurk on its outskirts,


s: Waiting with anxious hearts the dubious fate of to-morrow.


s: Arms have been taken from us, and warlike weapons of all kinds;


s: Than our fathers in forts, besieged by the enemy's cannon.


s: Fear no evil, my friend, and to-night may no shadow of sorrow


s: Blushing Evangeline heard the words that her father had spoken,


s: And, as they died on his lips, the worthy notary entered.


s: Bent like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean,


s: Bent, but not broken, by age was the form of the notary public;


s: Shocks of yellow hair, like the silken floss of the maize, hung


s: Father of twenty children was he, and more than a hundred


s: Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.


s: He was beloved by all, and most of all by the children;


s: For he told them tales of the Loup-garou in the forest,


s: And of the goblin that came in the night to water the horses,


s: And of the white Letiche, the ghost of a child who unchristened


s: Died, and was doomed to haunt unseen the chambers of children;


s: And how on Christmas eve the oxen talked in the stable,


s: And how the fever was cured by a spider shut up in a nutshell,


s: And of the marvelous powers of four-leaved clover and horseshoes,


s: Then up rose from his seat by the fireside Basil the blacksmith,


s: "Gossip enough have I heard, in sooth, yet am never the wiser;


s: And what their errand may be I know no better than others.


s: Yet am I not of those who imagine some evil intention


s: Brings them here, for we are at peace; and why then molest us?"


s: "Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice


s: Triumphs; and well I remember a story, that often consoled me,


s: When as a captive I lay in the old French fort at Port Royal."


s: This was the old man's favorite tale, and he loved to repeat it


s: When his neighbors complained that any injustice was done them.


s: "Once in an ancient city, whose name I no longer remember,


s: Raised aloft on a column, a brazen statute of Justice


s: That a necklace of pearls was lost, and ere long a suspicion


s: Fell on an orphan girl who lived as maid in the household.


s: She, after form of trial condemned to die on the scaffold,


s: Patiently met her doom at the foot of the statue of Justice.


s: As to her Father in heaven her innocent spirit ascended,


s: Lo! o'er the city a tempest rose; and the bolts of the thunder


s: And in the hollow thereof was found the nest of a magpie,


s: Into whose clay-built walls the necklace of pearls was inwoven."


s: Then Evangeline lighted the brazen lamp on the table,


s: Filled, till it overflowed, the pewter tankard with home-brewed


s: Wrote with a steady hand the date and the age of the parties,


s: Naming the dower of the bride in flocks of sheep and in cattle.


s: Orderly all things proceeded, and duly and well were completed,


s: And the great seal of the law was set like a sun on the margin.


s: Then from his leathern pouch the farmer threw on the table


s: Three times the old man's fee in solid pieces of silver;


s: And the notary rising, and blessing the bride and bridegroom,


s: Lifted aloft the tankard of ale and drank to their welfare.


s: Wiping the foam from his lip, he solemnly bowed and departed,


s: While in silence the others sat and mused by the fireside,


s: Till Evangeline brought the draught-board out of its corner.


s: Soon was the game begun. In friendly contention the old men


s: Laughed at each lucky hit, or unsuccessful manoeuvre,


s: Sat the lovers and whispered together, beholding the moon rise


s: Over the pallid sea and the silvery mist of the meadows.


s: Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,


s: Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.


s: Thus was the evening passed. Anon the bell from the belfry


s: Rang out the hour of nine, the village curfew, and straightway


s: Lingered long in Evangeline's heart, and filled it with gladness.


s: Soon with a soundless step the foot of Evangeline followed.


s: Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the darkness,


s: Lighted less by the lamp than the shining face of the maiden.


s: Linen and woolen stuffs, by the hand of Evangeline woven


s: Naked snow-white feet on the gleaming floor of her chamber!


s: Little she dreamed that below, among the trees of the orchard,


s: And, as she gazed from the window, she saw serenely the moon pass


s: Pleasantly rose next morn the sun on the village of Grand-Pre.


s: Pleasantly gleamed in the soft, sweet air the Basin of Minas,


s: Many a glad good-morrow and jocund laugh from the young folk


s: Made the bright air brighter, as up from the numerous meadows,


s: Every house was an inn, where all were welcomed and feasted;


s: For with this simple people, who lived like brothers together,


s: All things were held in common, and what one had was another's.


s: Yet under Benedict's roof hospitality seemed more abundant:


s: For Evangeline stood among the guests of her father.


s: Under the open sky, in the odorous air of the orchard,


s: Stript of its golden fruit, was spread the feast of betrothal.


s: Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances


s: Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows;


s: Old folk and young together, and children mingled among them.


s: Fairest of all maids was Evangeline, Benedict's daughter!


s: Noblest of all the youths was Gabriel, son of the blacksmith!


s: So passed the morning away. And lo! with a summons sonorous


s: Painful the task is I do, which to you I know must be grievous.


s: Yet must I bow and obey, and deliver the will of our monarch:


s: Ever as faithful subjects, a happy and peaceable people!


s: Prisoners now I declare you, for such is his Majesty's pleasure!"


s: Suddenly gathers a storm, and the deadly sling of the hailstones


s: Louder and ever louder a wail of sorrow and anger,


s: And, by one impulse moved, they madly rushed to the door-way.


s: Vain was the hope of escape; and cries and fierce imprecations


s: In the midst of the strife and tumult of angry contention,


s: Lo! the door of the chancel opened, and Father Felician


s: Entered, with serious mien, and ascended the steps of the altar.


s: Raising his reverend hand, with a gesture he awed into silence


s: All that clamorous throng; and thus he spake to his people;


s: Deep were his tones and solemn; in accents measured and mournful


s: Not in word alone, but in deed, to love one another!


s: Lo! where the crucified Christ from His cross is gazing upon you!


s: Let us repeat it now, and say, 'O Father, forgive them!'"


s: Then came the evening service. The tapers gleamed from the altar;


s: Long at her father's door Evangeline stood, with her right hand


s: Thus did Evangeline wait at her father's door, as the sunset


s: Threw the long shadows of trees o'er the broad ambrosial meadows.


s: And from the fields of her soul a fragrance celestial ascended,--


s: Cheering with looks and words the mournful hearts of the women,


s: As o'er the darkening fields with lingering steps they departed,


s: Meanwhile, amid the gloom, by the church Evangeline lingered.


s: All was silent within; and in vain at the door and the windows


s: Stood she, and listened and looked, until, overcome by emotion


s: "Gabriel!" cried she aloud with tremulous voice; but no answer


s: In the dead of the night she heard the disconsolate rain fall


s: Loud on the withered leaves of the sycamore-tree by the window.


s: Four times the sun had risen and set; and now on the fifth day


s: Cheerily called the cock to the sleeping maids of the farm-house.


s: Came from the neighboring hamlets and farms the Acadian women,


s: All day long between the shore and the ships did the boats ply;


s: All day long the wains came laboring down from the village.


s: Late in the afternoon, when the sun was near to his setting,


s: Sang with tremulous lips a chant of the Catholic Missions:--


s: "Sacred heart of the Saviour! O inexhaustible fountain!


s: Half-way down to the shore Evangeline waited in silence,


s: Not overcome with grief, but strong in the hour of affliction,--


s: Calmly and sadly she waited, until the procession approached her,


s: Tears then filled her eyes, and, eagerly running to meet him,


s: Nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen!"


s: Thus to the Gasperau's mouth moved on that mournful procession.


s: There disorder prevailed, and the tumult and stir of embarking.


s: Busily plied the freighted boats; and in the confusion


s: So unto separate ships were Basil and Gabriel carried,


s: While in despair on the shore Evangeline stood with her father.


s: Fled away from the shore, and left the line of the sand-beach


s: All escape cut off by the sea, and the sentinels near them,


s: Lay encamped for the night the houseless Acadian farmers.


s: Back to its nethermost caves retreated the bellowing ocean,


s: Dragging adown the beach the rattling pebbles, and leaving


s: Inland and far up the shore the stranded boats of the sailors.


s: But on the shores meanwhile the evening fires had been kindled,


s: Raising his tearful eyes to the silent stars that above them


s: Suddenly rose from the south a light, as in autumn the blood-red


s: Moon climbs the crystal walls of heaven, and o'er the horizon


s: Titan-like stretches its hundred hands upon mountain and meadow,


s: Loud on a sudden the cocks began to crow in the farmyards,


s: Thinking the day had dawned; and anon the lowing of cattle


s: Came on the evening breeze, by the barking of dogs interrupted.


s: Slowly the priest uplifted the lifeless head, and the maiden


s: Knelt at her father's side, and wailed aloud in her terror.


s: Then in a swoon she sank and lay with her head on his bosom.


s: Through the long night she lay in deep, oblivious slumber;


s: Still the blaze of the burning village illumined the landscape.


s: Reddened the sky overhead, and gleamed on the faces around her,


s: And like the day of doom it seemed to her wavering senses.


s: Then a familiar voice she heard, as it said to the people,--


s: "Let us bury him here by the sea. When a happier season


s: Brings us again to our homes from the unknown land of our exile,


s: Then shall his sacred dust be piously laid in the churchyard."


s: But without bell or book, they buried the farmer of Grand-Pre.


s: And as the voice of the priest repeated the service of sorrow,


s: Lo! with a mournful sound like the voice of a vast congregation,


s: Solemnly answered the sea, and mingled its roar with the dirges.


s: 'T was the returning tide, that afar from the waste of the ocean,


s: And with the ebb of the tide the ships sailed out of the harbor,


s: Many a weary year had passed since the burning of Grand-Pre.


s: When on the falling tide the freighted vessels departed,


s: Bearing a nation, with all its household Gods, into exile,


s: Exile without an end, and without an example in story.


s: Far asunder, on separate coasts, the Acadians landed;


s: From the cold lakes of the North to sultry Southern savannas--


s: Deep in their sands to bury the scattered bones of the mammoth.


s: Lowly and meek in spirit, and patiently suffering all things.


s: Fair was she and young; but, alas! before her extended,


s: Dreary and vast and silent, the desert of life, with its pathway


s: As the emigrant's way o'er the Western desert is marked by


s: Camp-fires long consumed, and bones that bleach in the sunshine.


s: Suddenly paused in the sky, and fading, slowly descended


s: Into the east again, from whence it late had arisen.


s: Sometimes a rumor, a hearsay, an inarticulate whisper,


s: Came with its airy hand to point and beckon her forward.


s: "Gabriel Lajeunesse!" they said; "Oh, yes! we have seen him.


s: "Gabriel Lajeunesse!" said others; "Oh, yes! we have seen him.


s: He is a voyageur in the lowlands of Louisiana."


s: Who have hearts as tender and true, and spirits as loyal?


s: Here is Baptiste Leblanc, the notary's son, who has loved thee


s: Many a tedious year; come, give him thy hand and be happy!


s: Thou art too fair to be left to braid St. Catherine's tresses."


s: Then would Evangeline answer, serenely but sadly, "I cannot!


s: Thereupon the priest, her friend and father-confessor,


s: If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning


s: Still in her heart she heard the funeral dirge of the ocean,


s: Bleeding, barefooted, over the shards and thorns of existence.


s: Let me essay, O Muse! to follow the wanderer's footsteps;--


s: Not through each devious path, each changeful year of existence;


s: Here and there, in some open space, and at intervals only;


s: Happy, at length, if he find a spot where it reaches an outlet.


s: It was the month of May. Far down the Beautiful River,


s: Past the Ohio shore and past the mouth of the Wabash,


s: Into the golden stream of the broad and swift Mississippi,


s: Floated a cumbrous boat, that was rowed by Acadian boatmen.


s: It was a band of exiles: a raft, as it were, from the shipwrecked


s: Bound by the bonds of a common belief and a common misfortune;


s: Men and women and children, who, guided by hope or by hearsay,


s: Sought for their kith and their kin among the few-acred farmers


s: On the Acadian coast, and the prairies of fair Opelousas.


s: With them Evangeline went, and her guide, the Father Felician.


s: Lay in the stream, and along the wimpling waves of their margin,


s: Shining with snow-white plumes, large flocks of pelicans waded.


s: Level the landscape grew, and along the shores of the river,


s: Shaded by china-trees, in the midst of luxuriant gardens,


s: They were approaching the region where reigns perpetual summer,


s: Where through the Golden Coast, and groves of orange and citron,


s: Sweeps with majestic curve the river away to the eastward.


s: Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction.


s: Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress


s: Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.


s: Deathlike the silence seemed, and unbroken, save by the herons


s: Home to their roosts in the cedar-trees returning at sunset,


s: Or by the owl, as he greeted the moon with demoniac laughter.


s: Lovely the moonlight was as it glanced and gleamed on the water,


s: As, at the tramp of a horse's hoof on the turf of the prairies,


s: Far in advance are closed the leaves of the shrinking mimosa,


s: So, at the hoof-beats of fate, with sad forebodings of evil,


s: And every stroke of the oar now brought him nearer and nearer.


s: Over the watery floor, and beneath the reverberant branches;


s: But not a voice replied; no answer came from the darkness;


s: Such as they sang of old on their own Acadian rivers.


s: Water-lilies in myriads rocked on the slight undulations


s: Made by the passing oars, and, resplendent in beauty, the lotus


s: Lifted her golden crown above the heads of the boatmen.


s: Faint was the air with the odorous breath of magnolia blossoms,


s: And with the heat of noon; and numberless sylvan islands,


s: Fragrant and thickly embowered with blossoming hedges of roses,


s: Near to whose shores they glided along, invited to slumber.


s: Soon by the fairest of these their weary oars were suspended.


s: Under the boughs of Wachita willows, that grew by the margin,


s: Over them vast and high extended the cope of a cedar.


s: On whose pendulous stairs the angels ascending, descending,


s: Filled was her heart with love, and the dawn of an opening heaven


s: Nearer, ever nearer, among the numberless islands,


s: Darted a light, swift boat, that sped away o'er the water,


s: Urged on its course by the sinewy arms of hunters and trappers.


s: Somewhat beyond his years on his face was legibly written.


s: Gabriel was it, who, weary with waiting, unhappy and restless,


s: Sought in the Western wilds oblivion of self and of sorrow.


s: Swiftly they glided along, close under the lee of the island,


s: But by the opposite bank, and behind a screen of palmettos;


s: Said with a sigh to the friendly priest, "O Father Felician!


s: Something says in my heart that near me Gabriel wanders.


s: Is it a foolish dream, an idle and vague superstition?


s: Or has an angel passed, and revealed the truth to my spirit?"


s: Then, with a blush, she added, "Alas for my credulous fancy!


s: Unto ears like thine such words as these have no meaning."


s: But made answer the reverend man, and he smiled as he answered,--


s: Bending above, and resting its dome on the walls of the forest.


s: They who dwell there have named it the Eden of Louisiana."


s: With these words of cheer they arose and continued their journey.


s: Like a magician extended his golden wand o'er the landscape;


s: Twinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest


s: Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.


s: Touched by the magic spell, the sacred fountains of feeling


s: Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music


s: Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low, lamentation;


s: Till, having gathered them all, he flung them abroad in derision,


s: Saw the column of smoke that arose from a neighboring dwelling;--


s: Such as the Druids cut down with golden hatchets at Yule-tide,


s: Stood, secluded and still, the house of the herdsman. A garden


s: Girded it round about with a belt of luxuriant blossoms,


s: Filling the air with fragrance. The house itself was of timbers


s: Hewn from the cypress-tree, and carefully fitted together.


s: Large and low was the roof; and on slender columns supported,


s: Rose-wreathed, vine-encircled, a broad and spacious veranda,


s: Haunt of the humming-bird and the bee, extended around it.


s: At each end of the house, amid the flowers of the garden,


s: Stationed the dove-cots were, as love's perpetual symbol,


s: Scenes of endless wooing, and endless contentions of rivals.


s: Silence reigned o'er the place. The line of shadow and sunshine


s: Into the evening air, a thin blue column of smoke rose.


s: In the rear of the house, from the garden gate, ran a pathway


s: Full in his track of light, like ships with shadowy canvas


s: Just where the woodlands met the flowery surf of the prairie,


s: Mounted upon his horse, with Spanish saddle and stirrups,


s: Sat a herdsman, arrayed in gaiters and doublet of deerskin.


s: Broad and brown was the face that from under the Spanish sombrero


s: Round about him were numberless herds of kine that were grazing


s: Quietly in the meadows, and breathing the vapory freshness


s: That uprose from the river, and spread itself over the landscape.


s: Fully his broad, deep chest, he blew a blast, that resounded


s: Rose like flakes of foam on the adverse currents of ocean.


s: Pushed with extended arms and exclamations of wonder;


s: When they beheld his face, they recognized Basil the blacksmith.


s: Hearty his welcome was, as he led his guests to the garden.


s: There in an arbor of roses with endless question and answer


s: Broke the silence and said, "If you came by the Atchafalaya,


s: Tears came into her eyes, and she said, with a tremulous accent,


s: Foolish boy! he has left me alone with my herds and my horses.


s: Moody and restless grown, and tried and troubled, his spirit


s: Could no longer endure the calm of this quiet existence.


s: Thinking ever of thee, uncertain and sorrowful ever,


s: Ever silent, or speaking only of thee and his troubles,


s: He at length had become so tedious to men and to maidens,


s: Tedious even to me, that at length I bethought me, and sent him


s: Unto the town of Adayes to trade for mules with the Spaniards.


s: Thence he will follow the Indian trails to the Ozark Mountains,


s: Hunting for furs in the forests, on rivers trapping the beaver.


s: Therefore be of good cheer; we will follow the fugitive lover;


s: We will follow him fast, and bring him back to his prison."


s: Then glad voices were heard, and up from the banks of the river,


s: Borne aloft on his comrades' arms, came Michael the fiddler.


s: Long under Basil's roof had he lived, like a god on Olympus,


s: Having no other care than dispensing music to mortals.


s: Far renowned was he for his silver locks and his fiddle.


s: "Long live Michael," they cried, "our brave Acadian minstrel!"


s: As they bore him aloft in triumphal procession; and straightway


s: Father Felician advanced with Evangeline, greeting the old man


s: Kindly and oft, and recalling the past, while Basil, enraptured,


s: Hailed with hilarious joy his old companions and gossips,


s: Laughing loud and long, and embracing mothers and daughters.


s: Entered the hall of the house, where already the supper of Basil


s: Waited his late return; and they rested and feasted together.


s: Over the joyous feast the sudden darkness descended.


s: All was silent without, and, illuming the landscape with silver,


s: Fair rose the dewy moon and the myriad stars; but within doors,


s: Here no stony ground provokes the wrath of the farmer;


s: So that the guests all started; and Father Felician, astounded,


s: Suddenly paused, with a pinch of snuff half-way to his nostrils.


s: For it is not like that of our cold Acadian climate,


s: Cured by wearing a spider hung round one's neck in a nutshell!"


s: It was the neighboring Creoles and small Acadian planters,


s: Who had been summoned all to the house of Basil the herdsman.


s: Merry the meeting was of ancient comrades and neighbors:


s: Drawn by the gentle bond of a common country together.


s: But in the neighboring hall a strain of music, proceeding


s: From the accordant strings of Michael's melodious fiddle,


s: Broke up all further speech. Away, like children delighted,


s: Dreamlike, with beaming eyes and the rush of fluttering garments.


s: While Evangeline stood like one entranced, for within her


s: Olden memories rose, and loud in the midst of the music


s: Heard she the sound of the sea, and an irrepressible sadness


s: Came o'er her heart, and unseen she stole forth into the garden.


s: Beautiful was the night. Behind the black wall of the forest,


s: Tipping its summit with silver, arose the moon. On the river


s: Seemed to inundate her soul with indefinable longings,


s: Gleaming and floating away in mingled and infinite numbers.


s: Over her head the stars, the thoughts of God in the heavens,


s: Shone on the eyes of man, who had ceased to marvel and worship,


s: Save when a blazing comet was seen on the walls of that temple,


s: As if a hand had appeared and written upon them, "Upharsin."


s: And the soul of the maiden, between the stars and the fire-flies,


s: Art thou so near unto me, and yet I cannot behold thee?


s: Art thou so near unto me, and yet thy voice does not reach me?


s: Ah! how often thy feet have trod this path to the prairie!


s: Ah! how often thine eyes have looked on the woodlands around me!


s: Ah! how often beneath this oak, returning from labor,


s: Thou hast lain down to rest, and to dream of me in thy slumbers!


s: When shall these eyes behold, these arms be folded about thee?"


s: Loud and sudden and near the note of a whippoorwill sounded


s: "Patience!" whispered the oaks from oracular caverns of darkness;


s: Bright rose the sun next day; and all the flowers of the garden


s: Not that day, nor the next, nor yet the day that succeeded,


s: Found they trace of his course, in lake or forest or river,


s: Nor, after many days, had they found him; but vague and uncertain


s: Gabriel left the village, and took the road of the prairies.


s: Far in the West there lies a desert land, where the mountains


s: Lift, through perpetual snows, their lofty and luminous summits.


s: Westward the Oregon flows and the Walleway and Owyhee.


s: Eastward, with devious course, among the Wind-river Mountains,


s: Through the Sweet-water Valley precipitate leaps the Nebraska;


s: And to the south, from Fontaine-quibout and the Spanish sierras,


s: Like the great chords of a harp, in loud and solemn vibrations.


s: Bright with luxuriant clusters of roses and purple amorphas.


s: Like the implacable soul of a chieftain slaughtered in battle,


s: By invisible stairs ascending and scaling the heavens.


s: Like the protecting hand of God inverted above them.


s: Into this wonderful land, at the base of the Ozark Mountains,


s: Gabriel far had entered, with hunters and trappers behind him.


s: Day after day, with their Indian guides, the maiden and Basil


s: Followed his flying steps, and thought each day to o'ertake him.


s: Once, as they sat by their evening fire, there silently entered


s: Into the little camp an Indian woman, whose features


s: Wore deep traces of sorrow, and patience as great as her sorrow.


s: She was a Shawnee woman returning home to her people,


s: From the far-off hunting-grounds of the cruel Camanches,


s: But when their meal was done, and Basil and all his companions,


s: Slowly, with soft, low voice, and the charm of her Indian accent,


s: Hapless heart like her own had loved and had been disappointed.


s: Moved to the depths of her soul by pity and woman's compassion,


s: Yet in her sorrow pleased that one who had suffered was near her,


s: Mute with wonder the Shawnee sat, and when she had ended


s: Still was mute; but at length, as if a mysterious horror


s: But, when the morning came, arose and passed from the wigwam,


s: Fading and melting away and dissolving into the sunshine,


s: And nevermore returned, nor was seen again by her people.


s: Silent with wonder and strange surprise, Evangeline listened


s: To the soft flow of her magical words, till the region around her


s: Lighting the little tent, and with a mysterious splendor


s: Swayed and sighed overhead in scarcely audible whispers.


s: As the cold, poisonous snake creeps into the nest of the swallow.


s: Seemed to float in the air of night; and she felt for a moment


s: That, like the Indian maid, she, too, was pursuing a phantom.


s: "Let us go to the Mission, for there good tidings await us!"


s: And in a meadow green and broad, by the bank of a river,


s: Saw the tents of the Christians, the tents of the Jesuit Mission.


s: Knelt the Black Robe chief with his children. A crucifix fastened


s: Of its aerial roof, arose the chant of their vespers,


s: But when the service was done, and the benediction had fallen


s: And with words of kindness conducted them into his wigwam.


s: On this mat by my side, where now the maiden reposes,


s: Told me the same sad tale; then arose and continued his journey!"


s: Then Evangeline said, and her voice was meek and submissive,


s: "Let me remain with thee, for my soul is sad and afflicted."


s: So seemed it wise and well unto all; and betimes on the morrow,


s: Slowly, slowly, slowly the days succeeded each other,--


s: Blushed at each blood-red ear, for that betokened a lover,


s: Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's journey


s: Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert.


s: Such in the soul of man is faith. The blossoms of passion,


s: Gay and luxuriant flowers, are brighter and fuller of fragrance,


s: But on the breath of the summer winds a rumor was wafted


s: Sweeter than the song of bird, or hue or odor of blossom.


s: Far to the north and east, it is said, in the Michigan forests,


s: Gabriel had his lodge by the banks of the Saginaw River.


s: When over weary ways, by long and perilous marches,


s: She had attained at length the depths of the Michigan forests,


s: Found she the hunter's lodge deserted and fallen to ruin!


s: Thus did the long sad years glide on, and in seasons and places


s: Divers and distant far was seen the wandering maiden;--


s: Now in the Tents of Grace of the meek Moravian Missions,


s: Now in the noisy camps and the battle-fields of the army,


s: Now in secluded hamlets, in towns and populous cities.


s: Like a phantom she came, and passed away unremembered.


s: Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey;


s: Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended.


s: Each succeeding year stole something away from her beauty,


s: Leaving behind it, broader and deeper, the gloom and the shadow.


s: As in the eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning.


s: In that delightful land which is washed by the Delaware's waters,


s: Stands on the banks of its beautiful stream the city he founded.


s: There all the air is balm, and the peach is the emblem of beauty.


s: Finding among the children of Penn a home and a country.


s: There old Rene Leblanc had died; and when he departed,


s: Saw at his side only one of all his hundred descendants.


s: Something at least there was in the friendly streets of the city,


s: For it recalled the past, the old Acadian country,


s: Where all men were equal, and all were brothers and sisters.


s: So, when the fruitless search, the disappointed endeavor,


s: Ended, to recommence no more upon earth, uncomplainingly,


s: Roll away, and afar we behold the landscape below us,


s: Sun-illumined, with shining rivers and cities and hamlets,


s: Clothed in the beauty of love and youth, as last she beheld him,


s: Only more beautiful made by his deathlike silence and absence.


s: Into her thoughts of him time entered not, for it was not.


s: Patience and abnegation of self, and devotion to others,


s: This was the lesson a life of trial and sorrow had taught her.


s: So was her love diffused, but, like to some odorous spices,


s: Suffered no waste nor loss, though filling the air with aroma.


s: Other hope had she none, nor wish in life, but to follow,


s: Meekly with reverent steps, the sacred feet of her Saviour.


s: Thus many years she lived as a Sister of Mercy; frequenting


s: Lonely and wretched roofs in the crowded lanes of the city,


s: Where distress and want concealed themselves from the sunlight,


s: Where disease and sorrow in garrets languished neglected.


s: High at some lonely window he saw the light of her taper.


s: Then it came to pass that a pestilence fell on the city,


s: Presaged by wondrous signs, and mostly by flocks of wild pigeons,


s: Spread to a brackish lake the silver stream of existence.


s: Wealth had no power to bribe, nor beauty to charm, the oppressor;


s: Only, alas! the poor, who had neither friends nor attendants,


s: Crept away to die in the almshouse, home of the homeless.


s: Gleams of celestial light encircle her forehead with splendor,


s: Such as the artist paints o'er the brows of saints and apostles,


s: Or such as hangs by night o'er a city seen at a distance.


s: Unto their eyes it seemed the lamps of the city celestial,


s: Into whose shining gates erelong their spirits would enter.


s: Sweet on the summer air was the odor of flowers in the garden,


s: And she paused on her way to gather the fairest among them,


s: Moistening the feverish lip, and the aching brow, and in silence


s: Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.


s: Many familiar forms had disappeared in the night time;


s: Vacant their places were, or filled already by strangers.


s: Suddenly, as if arrested, by fear or a feeling of wonder,


s: Still she stood, with her colorless lips apart, while a shudder


s: Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish,


s: That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.


s: On the pallet before her was stretched the form of an old man.


s: Long, and thin, and gray were the locks that shaded his temples;


s: But, as he lay in the morning light, his face for a moment


s: Seemed to assume once more the forms of its earlier manhood;


s: So are wont to be changed the faces of those who are dying.


s: Hot and red on his lips still burned the flush of the fever,


s: Motionless, senseless, dying, he lay, and his spirit exhausted


s: Then through those realms of shade, in multiplied reverberations,


s: Whispered a gentle voice, in accents tender and saint-like,


s: "Gabriel! O my beloved!" and died away into silence.


s: Then he beheld, in a dream, once more the home of his childhood;


s: Green Acadian meadows, with sylvan rivers among them,


s: Tears came into his eyes; and as slowly he lifted his eyelids,


s: Vanished the vision away, but Evangeline knelt by his bedside.


s: Vainly he strove to whisper her name, for the accents unuttered


s: Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom.


s: All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow,


s: All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,


s: All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!


s: And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom,


s: Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured, "Father, I thank thee!"


s: Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow,


s: Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.


s: Under the humble walls of the little Catholic churchyard,


s: In the heart of the city, they lie, unknown and unnoticed.


s: Daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them,


s: Only along the shore of the mournful and misty Atlantic


s: Linger a few Acadian peasants, whose fathers from exile


s: Wandered back to their native land to die in its bosom.


s: In the fisherman's cot the wheel and the loom are still busy;


s: While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced, neighboring ocean


s: Perry Pictures helpful in the Study of Evangeline:


s: SPANISH SIERRAS, Mountain range in New Mexico.


s: _Autumn. Evening Out-of-doors. In-doors._


s: Find subject and predicate of first sentence. Describe house and


s: Select the lines that appeal to you most.


s: Select the lines that show the most beautiful sentiment.


s: Select the lines that contain the best pictures.


s: "Before the war," she sighs. "Before the war"...


s: "If I'd 'a' played me Jack on that there Ten..."


s: "I've knowed ole Flood this last five year or more ..."


s: "'E calls me Digger; that's 'ow 'e begins ..."


s: "I've seen so much uv dirt an' grime ..."


s: "'Taint my idea uv argument to call a man a fool ..."


s: "My oath!" the Duchess sez. "You'd not ixpect ..."


s: "'Oo is that girl," sez Digger Smith . . .


s: "I wash me 'ands uv 'im," I tells 'em, straight ...


s: I wondered wot was doin'. First I seen ...


s: "BEFORE the war," she sighs.  "Before the war."


s: Then blinks 'er eyes, an' tries to work a smile.


s: "Ole scenes," she sez, "don't look the same no more.


s: Ole ways," she sez, "seems to 'ave changed their style,


s: The pleasures that we 'ad don't seem worth while--


s: Them simple joys that passed an hour away--


s: An' troubles, that we used to so revile,


s: 'Ow small they look," she sez. "'Ow small to-day.


s: "This war!" sighs ole Mar Flood. An' when I seen


s: The ole girl sittin' in our parlour there,


s: Tellin' 'er troubles to my wife, Doreen,


s: As though the talkin' eased 'er load uv care,


s: I thinks uv mothers, 'ere an' everywhere,


s: Smilin' a bit while they are grievin' sore


s: For grown-up babies, fightin' Over There;


s: An' then I 'ears 'em sigh, "Before the war."


s: I ain't averse--one more new word I've learned--


s: An' when it comes I reckon that it's earned.


s: It's jist a drink, as fur as I'm concerned,


s: Good for a bloke that's toilin' on the land;


s: But when a caller comes, 'ere I am turned


s: So's I won't bring the fam'ly to disgrace


s: I 'ave to change me shirt, an' wash me face,


s: An' look reel neat, from me waist up at least,


s: An' sling remarks in at the proper place,


s: An' not makes noises drinkin', like a beast.


s: "'Ave some more cake. Another slice, now do.


s: 'Ow is the children?"  Ar, it makes me blue!


s: I likes to take me tucker plain an' free:


s: Tea an' a chunk out on the job for choice,


s: So I can stoke with no one there to see.


s: Besides, I 'aven't got no comp'ny voice.


s: Uv course, I've 'ad it all out with the wife.


s: I argues that there's work that must be done,


s: An' tells 'er that I 'ates this tony life.


s: She sez there's jooties that we must not shun.


s: You bet that ends it; so I joins the fun,


s: An' puts 'em all at ease with silly grins--


s: Slings bits uv repartee like "'Ave a bun,"


s: An' passes bread an' butter, for me sins.


s: Since I've been marri'd, say, I've chucked some things,


s: An' learned a whole lot more to fill the space.


s: I've slung all slang; crook words 'ave taken wings,


s: An' I 'ave learned to entertain with grace.


s: But when ole Missus Flood comes round our place


s: I don't object to 'er, for all 'er sighs;


s: Becos I likes 'er ways, I likes 'er face,


s: An', most uv all, she 'as them mother's eyes.


s: "Before the war," she sighs, the poor ole girl.


s: 'Er talk it gets me thinkin' in between,


s: While I'm assistin' at this social whirl. . . .


s: To talk about the things that might 'ave been


s: If Syd 'ad not been killed at Suvla Bay,


s: An' not been 'eard uv since 'e went away.


s: They 'ave a little farm right next to us--


s: 'Er an' 'er 'usband--where they live alone.


s: Spite uv 'er cares, she ain't the sort to fuss


s: Or serve up sudden tears an' sob an' moan,


s: An' since I've known 'er some'ow I 'ave grown


s: To see in 'er, an' all the grief she's bore,


s: A million brave ole mothers 'oo 'ave known


s: Deep sorrer since them days before the war.


s: "Before the war," she sez.  "Yeh mind our Syd?


s: Poor lad. . . . But then, yeh never met young Jim--


s: 'Im 'oo was charged with things 'e never did.


s: Ah, both uv you'd 'ave been reel chums with 'im.


s: It's six long years now since 'e went away


s: Ay, drove away." 'Er poor ole eyes git dim.


s: "That was," she sighs, "that was me blackest day.


s: There was the day the parson come to tell


s: The news about our Syd. . . . An', yet, some'ow . . . .


s: My little Jim!" She pauses for a spell. . . .


s: She sez, an' battles 'ard to brighten up.


s: "An' them there pinks uv yours, 'ow sweet they smell.


s: An'--Thanks! I think I will 'ave one more cup."


s: Them Floods 'ave 'ad a reel tough row to hoe.


s: First off, young Jim, 'oo plays it 'igh a bit,


s: Narks the ole man a treat, an' slings the show.


s: Then come the war, an' Syd 'e 'as to go.


s: An' Jim's cracked 'ardy since 'e went away.


s: 'Er Jim!  These mothers! Lord, they're all the same.


s: Syd was the son 'oo played the reel man's game;


s: But Jim 'oo sloped an' left no word be'ind,


s: 'Igh-spirited!  I've 'eard that tale before.


s: I sometimes think she'd take it rather kind


s: To 'ear that 'is 'igh spirits run to war.


s: "Before the war," she sez. "Ah, times was good.


s: The little farm out there, an' jist us four


s: Our Syd an' Jim! . . . Poor Jim! It grieves me sore;


s: For Dad won't 'ave 'im mentioned 'ome no more.


s: 'E's 'urt, I know, cos 'e thinks Jim 'urt me.


s: As if 'e could, the bonny boy I bore. . . .


s: But I must off 'ome now, an' git Dad's tea."


s: I seen 'er to the gate. (Take it frum me,


s: I'm some perlite.)  She sez, "Yeh mustn't mind


s: Your face it brings 'im back; 'e's jist your kind.


s: Not quite so 'an'some, p'r'aps, nor so refined.


s: I've got some toys uv 'is," she sez. "But there--


s: This is ole woman's talk, an' you be'ind


s: With all yer work, an' little time to spare."


s: She gives me 'and a squeeze an' turns away,


s: Sobbin', I thort; but when she looks be'ind,


s: Smilin', an' wavin', like she felt reel gay,


s: I wonders 'ow the women works that blind,


s: An' jist waves back; then goes inside to find


s: A lookin'-glass, an' takes a reel good look. . . .


s: "'Not quite so 'an'some, p'r'aps, nor so refined!'


s: Gawd 'elp yeh, Jim," I thinks. "Yeh must be crook."


s: "IF I'd 'a' played me Jack on that there Ten,"


s: Sez Peter Begg, "I might 'a' made the lot."


s: "'Ow could yeh?" barks ole Poole. "'Ow' could yeh, when


s: I 'ad me Queen be'ind?" Sez Begg, "Wot rot!