The flames crackled; the wood caught like tinder; the flickering light retrieved much of the cavern about them from the utter dark.

" "Through lonely summers, where the roses blow Unsought, and shed their tangled sweets, I sit and hark, or in the starry dark, Or when the night-rain on the hill-side beats.

"A universal hubbub wild Of stunning sounds and voices all confused, Borne through the hollow dark, assaults the ear With loudest vehemence.

Sharley, looking out upon the windy dark with straight-lidded eyes, knew that beneath and beyond the silence of the winter lay the silence of a life.

En bimeby hit got so Mars Marrabo's wife herse'f wuz skeered ter go out in de yard atter dark.

Meanings over the dead are mingled with profoundest questionings of philosophy, the signs of nature, and the story of Jesus, while now and then the star of the morning, bright Phosphor, flashes a few rays through the shifting cloudy dark.

And then with the cool dark and the mountain winds, after the long, pitiless day of fierce, devouring sunlight, the moon glided over the fainting world with peace and healinglike an angel over a battle-field....

O blood, blood of Troy was deep About the streets and altars then: And in the wedded rooms of sleep, Lo, the desolate dark alone, And headless things, men stumbled on.

We had come into the double dark of the timber when, suddenly, our horses reared, snorting, and stopped.

Lies, greed and cruelty, and dreadful dark!

Gibson, who was born in Hexham in 1878, sings of the struggling oppressed work-a-day people: "Crouched in the dripping dark With steaming shoulders stark The man who hews the coal to feed the fires.

I heard him, and his merry carol revelled Through all my brain, and woke my parched throat To join his song: then angel melodies Burst through the dull dark, and the mad air quivered Unutterable music.

Then had comestill like a dreama day of pouring rain, of lounging on the main-deck, watching the engines, and watching, too (for it was calm at night), the water from the sponson behind the paddle-boxes; as the live flame-beads leaped and ran amid the swirling snow, while some fifteen feet beyond the untouched oily black of the deep sea spread away into the endless dark.

You must be prepared to lose precious truths in a gulf of delusion,to leave all your old beacon-lights and wander forth in an eternal dark.

"Where had she been during the eveningafter dark of the night of thekilling?"

The friendly dark shut in around her and somewhere in the distance a train whistle tooted shrilly.

They saw themselves, doubtless, marching down the streets of Berlin as now they were marching down the streets of Saintesand they kept flinging back through the frosty dark: "Il est rougeet noiret blancEt fenduau derriered..." Chapter VI "The Great Days" They were playing "The Categorical Imperative" that evening at the Little Theatre in Unter den Linden.

Thy hair Hast scarcely lost its deep old glorious dark: Thy face is scarcely lined.

And on the night flashed pictures of the deed. 'Come!'and he dug his charger's panting sides, And all the homeward dark tore by in roaring tides.

The late twilight deepened into the intense dark, and the stars of midnight rose above the eastern hills.

Mrs. Twiggs was so fortunate as to have well-trained servants to do for her that which, thanks to my little dark handmaid, always fell to my share.

Then, like a joy born out of blackest sorrow, The miracle of morning seems to say, "There is no night without its dear to-morrow, No lonely dark that does not find the day.

The people shudder at the Colchian witch With fearful whispers of her magic dark.

When Bedient was relating certain events of days and nights, that had become happy memories through the little things of the soul, Captain Carreras would start to convey the indefinite desires he felt; then suddenly, the deep intimacy of his revelations would appear to his timid nature, and even in the mothering dark, the panic would strike homeand he would swing off with pitiful humor about goats or some other Island affair....

And we to feel, both, that there did be no more need to talk husht, as we did alway in the gloom and narrow dark of the gorge.