Torches made of pine boughs dipped in tar blazed at the four corners of the assembly, and in the middle on a boulder a man was sitting.

Coming down to later times, Virgil speaks of a sacred tree in a manner which Grimm considers highly suggestive of the Yggdrasil: "Jove's own tree, High as his topmost boughs to heaven ascend, So low his roots to hell's dominions tend.

Here and there seemed a cluster of giant trees scathed as if by lightning, their bare boughs standing up as high as the distant towers, their trunks like black columns without foliage.

Short remnants of the wind now and then came down the narrow street in erratic puffs heavily laden with odors of broken boughs and torn flowers, skimmed the little pools of rain-water in the deep ruts of the unpaved street, and suddenly went away to nothing, like a juggler's butterflies or a young man's money.

Being thus slender, and at the same time well clad with leafy boughs, it is oftentimes bent to the ground when laden with soft snow, forming beautiful arches in endless variety, some of which last until the melting of the snow in spring.

The red of twilight had faded, and the silver moon, round and fair, was rising behind the thick boughs of the apple-trees.

The common mistletoe was the golden bough of Virgil, and was Aenea's passport to the infernal regions.

In spite of these inharmonious tendencies in Browning, his poetry at times shows a lyric lightness, such as is heard in these lines: "Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In Englandnow!"

On one was a cross with a tiny vine running from the base; on another a bunch of lilies of the valley; and another showed a little bough of apple blossoms.

And then, with his arms full of the fragrant, balsamy boughs, he stopped and let them slip down to the ground and himself sat down upon a log and filled his pipe with slow fingers.

Cut out the shady bough for mine.

He strode along on the dry boughs.

Bursts from the troubled larch's giant boughs The pie, and, chattering, breaks the night's repose.

Peering through the bars, between the sombre boughs of a Judas tree, he saw a pretty little white house with a flight of stone steps before the front door, flanked by two blue vases.

If you should visit it within a year or two, you will perhaps notice some forked stakes standing a few feet from the place of the fire, and a bed of withered and dry boughs (now fresh and green).

Over the general's chair, which was a relic from the home of Washington, there was an arch of verdant boughs, with the laurel profusely intermixed, and surmounted by his country's banner, beneath which he had won his victories.

The spring did first his opening roses blow, First ripening autumn bent his fruitful bough.

The sky grew dark and darker: I struck my flint, and built up a small fire With rotten boughs and leaves, such as the winds Of many autumns in the cave had piled.

And Electra is represented as complaining that the tomb of her father, Agamemnon, had not been duly adorned with myrtle "With no libations, nor with myrtle boughs, Were my dear father's manes gratified.

All the upper boughs are more or less united, and the old proverb of "In union there is strength," seems to have in it a unique illustration and confirmation.

The streams ran merrily in the rich lightthe oriole swayed upon the gorgeous boughs and sang away his soulover all drooped the diaphanous haze of October, like an enchanting dream.

X. Raise ye up the pile with gloomy shadow Heap it with the mournful cypress-bough!

It is he who has told us what to expect, loving the beech like a father, "the most lovely of all forest trees whether we consider its smooth rind or bark, its glossy foliage or graceful pendulous boughs."

Christopher, the Christ bearer. ST. CHRISTOPHER OF THE GAEL FIONA MACLEOD Behind the wattle-woven house Nial the Mighty gently crept From out a screen of ashtree boughs To where a captive white-robe slept.

At Roman weddings, too, oaken boughs were carried during the ceremony as symbols of fecundity; and the bridal wreath was of verbena, plucked by the bride herself.