I know with what fond caressing, And loving smile and word, And look of tender blessing, She took her to her breast, And led her into some quiet room,

Kiss, baby, kiss, mother's lips shine by kisses, Choke the warm breath that else would fail in blessings; Black manhood comes, when turbulent guilty blisses Tender thee the kiss that poisons 'mid caressings.

A woman imagines she has nothing further to do than to be affectionate, caressing, sweet, of even temper and faithful.

Spring has come with a smile of blessing, Kissing the earth with her soft warm breath, Till it blushes in flowers at her gentle caressing, And wakes from the winter's dream of death.

And yet in her fierce muscular movements, and in her bendings and straightenings, and in her delicate caressings, and in her savage scowlings and wrinklings, and in her rapt gazings, and in all her awful absorption, he had quite failed to perceive the terrible eager outpouring of a human soul, mighty, passionate, and wistful.

When Miss Wimple would have soothed her, tenderly caressing, and promising her a sister's kindness and protection,a home safely guarded from intrusion, Madeline assailed her savagely, bidding her be off, with her smooth treachery, her pretty lies.

No, to some peaceful heavenly nook restore me, Where only for the bard blooms pure delight, Where love and friendship yield their choicest blessing, Our heart's true bliss, with godlike hand caressing.

He saw her lift her eyes; he felt The soft hand's light caressing, And heard the tremble of her voice, As if a fault confessing: "I'm sorry that I spelt the word; I hate to go above you, Because,"the brown eyes lower fell, "Because, you see, I love you!"

A pat and a rub around the ears from the man, and a more prolonged caressing from the woman, and he was away down the trail in front of them, gliding effortlessly over the ground in true wolf fashion.