The columns streamed like rivers Which in their course agree, And they streamed until their flashing Met the flashing of the sea: It was glorious glad marching, That marching to the sea.

" "Well done, Hoffman; off we go without delay, for I really long to rest my old bones in something like a home, after this long trip," said the major, who always kept his little troop in light marching order.

Amusing songs in Arabic, suitable for young children, there were none; and when a little marching about was attempted for the sake of variety, the mothers said, "We send our children to learn, and you teach them to play!

Movement is warming, and in ten minutes the column has settled itself to steady marching.

She open'd, but to shut Excell'd her Powr; the Gates wide open stood, That with extended Wings a banner'd Host Under spread Ensigns marching might pass through With Horse and Chariots rank'd in loose Array; So wide they stood, and like a Furnace Mouth Cast forth redounding Smoak and ruddy Flame.

When there was heavy fighting to be done, and rapid marching, the provisions became as theoretical as the hours of sleep.

Slow marching, thus descend I to the fiends.

After long spells of trench life, troops get very much out of strong, efficient marching capabilities, and are also apt to get slack all round.

Equally alive to German racial traits, the German Staff had organized in their mass offensive the élan which means fast marching and hard blows.

A pianoforte is desirable, to lead the singing, and accompany the plays, gymnastics, frequent marchings, and dancing, when that is taught,which it should be.

While Jackson and his men, prostrated by heat, fruitless marching and discouragement, were praying for succor, suddenly the air seemed to be filled with human forms, which to their dazed minds appeared to be angels sent in answer to their fervent petitions.

Thus there was a substantial margin for delay by bad weather, while if all went well the surplus afforded the fullest marching allowance.

We had been going for about three hours, and, though I was hard and spare from much travel in the sun, my legs were not used to this furious foot marching.

The incessant marching, forwards and backwards, to new positions in the blazing sun was more awful to bear than the actual fighting under the hideous fire of the German guns.

The music was incessantly grating upon our ears, but was in harmony with the irregular marching and movements of the Arabs, one of them occasionally rushing out of the line of march, charging, wheeling about, firing, reloading, shouting furiously, and making the air ring with his cries.

There were martial marchings in the streets beneath; great guns thundered out rejoicings; flags filled the air with crimson and blue, like an aurora; she only sat and made little frocks and tiers for the brothers and sisters.

" They went closer to that mighty marching hostthey saw the cheap garmentsbaggy trousers, torn shoes, worn shirts; they saw the earnest, tired faces, the white and toil-shrunk countenances, the poverty, the reality of pain and work, all pressing on in an atmosphere of serious progress, as if they knew what fires roared, what sinews ached down in the foundations of the world where the future is created.

THE CRIMES OF ENGLAND ISome Words to Professor Whirlwind DEAR PROFESSOR WHIRLWIND, Your name in the original German is too much for me; and this is the nearest I propose to get to it: but under the majestic image of pure wind marching in a movement wholly circular I seem to see, as in a vision, something of your mind.

Command after command rang out, which they obeyed with conscious snap and finish, pivoting, wheeling, rear marching, left and right flanking in perfect step and rhythm.

Rough mountain marching had torn the soles from their boots, and great unsightly wraps of rawhide and rags were bound on their feet.

In the summer of 1863 Rosecrans, by a series of skillful marchings, forced Bragg to abandon Chattanooga.

Nine hours' solid marching has given us 11 1/2 miles.

Jackson's troops did splendid marching and fighting.

Those firs, before whose stealthy-marching ranks The world-old oaks still dwindle and retreat, If I could stay their poisoned frown, which cows The pale shrunk underwood, and nestled seeds Into an age of sleep, 'twere something: and those men O'er whom that one word 'ownership' uprears me If I could make them lift a finger up But of their own free will, I'd own my seizin.

He'll have much stiffer marching to do when he's a soldier.