Two school-girls oncethe time is past, But ever will the memory last This moral to my fancy drew, In colours brilliant, deep, and true.

IV THE BALLAD SINGERS Where seven fair Streets to one tall Column draw, Two Nymphs have ta'en their stand, in hats of straw; Their yellower necks huge beads of amber grace, And by their trade they're of the Sirens' race:

Tex, take my advice an' keep your gun ready for the fastest draw you ever made.

It "has no figures, nor no fantasies," but "those which busy care draws in the brains of men," or which set off its own superior acquirements and wisdom.

Within the twilight chamber spreads apace The shadow of white Death, and at the door Invisible Corruption waits to trace His extreme way to her dim dwelling-place; 5 The eternal Hunger sits, but pity and awe Soothe her pale rage, nor dares she to deface So fair a prey, till darkness and the law Of change shall o'er his sleep the mortal curtain draw.

And do you know, I'll bet I was three hours a-running from hell to breakfast before I caught that hoss where he was feedin' in a narrow draw.

"Snowstorm"a small gorse half way between Fairford and Lechlade stations on the Great Western Railwayis a favourite draw.

Not two days since,' says he, 'you bowed The lowest of my fawning crowd.' 'Proud fool,' replies the goose,''tis true, Thy corn a fluttering levee drew!

A lethargic youth, requiring great effort to keep himself awake between the exercises, thinks the gymnasium slow, because he is; while an eager, impetuous young fellow, exasperated because he cannot in a fortnight draw himself up by one hand, finds the same trouble there as elsewhere, that the laws of Nature are not fast enough for his inclinations.

Staggering, and stunned by his superior force, She almost tumbled from her foaming horse, Yet unsubdued, she cut the spear in two, And from her side the quivering fragment drew, Then gain'd her seat, and onward urged her steed, But strong and fleet Sohráb arrests her speed: Strikes off her helm, and seesa woman's face, Radiant with blushes and commanding grace!

Rather she drew nearer, as a shivering creature starved and frozen draws near to the hunter's fire.

As near the graceful stripling drew, She cried:"My dream, my dream is true!

Going down a little draw we found water, and R.C. saw where a rock had been splashed with water and was still wet.

Seductive shone the Chiefs in arms His steel the nearest magnet drew; Wreathed with its kind, the Gulf-weed drives 'Tis Nature's wrong they rue.

Beguiling thus the wonder, The wondrous nearer drew; Hands bustled at the moorings The crowd respectful grew.

Nor fraudful wiles, nor dark deceit she knew, Nor arts to catch the inexperienc'd hind; No swain's attention from a rival drew, For she was simple all, and she was ever true.

About the middle of the afternoon, Waring rode down a sandy draw that deepened to an arroyo.

Tethering their mounts in the last clump of underbrush the riders labored on afoot up a shallow draw which scarred the steep slope.

They turned up a slight draw, toward the hillside.

Then with the silence and the tense nerve-draw of waiting came the sense of things finisheddone forever.

Of bishops and abbots, prior and parsons, Of earls and of barons and of many knights thereto, Of sergeants and of squires and of his husbandmen enow, And of simple men eke of the landso thick hither drew.

[They enter the gate of the town.] STUDY FAUST (entering with, the poodle) Now field and meadow I've forsaken; O'er them deep night her veil doth draw; In us the better soul doth waken, With feelings of foreboding awe.

Ring within ring the lengthening kamund flew, And from his steed the astonished monarch drew.

Beguiling thus the wonder, The wondrous nearer drew; Hands bustled at the moorings The crowd respectful grew.

For awhile the thin, wobbly track of a wagon meandered along ahead of him, then turned off up a flat-bottomed draw and was lost in the sagebrush.