" Here, too, "singing" is a noun; but now its verbal character has disappeared, for it is modified by an adjective "blithe," and instead of a direct object we have the prepositional phrase "of merry songs."

Ina, too, became breezy, blithe.

That some are solitary, dull, heavy, churlish; some again blithe, buxom, light, and merry, they ascribe wholly to the stars.

I still remember Its margin glassed by hoar December, And how the sun fell on the snow: Ah! can it be so long ago? It cometh back;so blithe, so bright, It hurries to my eager ken.

But there was a "Musician," for Ole Bull was once a guest at the Wayside, "Fair-haired, blue-eyed, his aspect blithe, His figure tall and straight and lithe, And every feature of his face Revealing his Norwegian race.

The composer dashed a blithe flourish to the tail of a note.

But there was a "Musician," for Ole Bull was once a guest at the Wayside, "Fair-haired, blue-eyed, his aspect blithe, His figure tall and straight and lithe, And every feature of his face Revealing his Norwegian race.

No, I see Pret-ty Dick has flown a-way, And is sing-ing blithe and gay, Sit-ting yon-der on a spray Of the tree.

<Glad, happy, cheerful, mirthful, joyful, joyous, blithe, gay, frolicsome, merry, jolly, sportive, jovial, jocular, jocose, jocund.

"And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his sithe.

"And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his sithe.