"Halt, wanderer from a German shore!" (Thus runs the sad refrain,) "Here dwelt thine Emperor, here he bore With fortitude his pain; Hear'st thou the lone, low monotone Of billows tempest-tossed?

Hear the sweet refrain!

The stirring memories of the Great Revolution were like a constant refrain at the back of men's minds all through that dreary time.

First it was a hymn, all abrupt, odd, minor cadences and monotonous refrain.

The joyfulness of festivals, the pomp of processions, the sublimity of great martyrdoms, the sorrow of defeats, the peace of holiness, the innocence and sweetness of childhood, the hope of manhood, and the retrospection of old age, when represented upon the canvas, find in her forms and colors endless refrain of response.

Any one who has seen an outward-bound clipper ship getting under way and heard the "shanty-songs" sung by the sailors as they toiled at capstan and halliards, will probably remember that rhymeless but melodious refrain

A favorite refrain for songs among the Arabs, to whom rain represents all comforts and delights.]

Hear ye not how, from all high points of Time, From peak to peak adown the mighty chain That links the ages,echoing sublime A Voice Almighty,leaps one grand refrain, Wakening the generations with a shout, And trumpet-call of thunder,Come ye out!

And amid all the beauty of Rome in the spring, I was haunted by the grim refrain, "Nella primavera si combatte e si muore, o soldato,""In the springtide men fight and die, young soldier.

Sea-worn grandsires, cripple-bound, Hulks of old sailors run aground, Shook head, and fist, and hat, and cane, And cracked with curses the hoarse refrain: "Here's Flud Oirson, fur his horrd horrt, Torr'd an' futherr'd an' corr'd in a corrt By the women o' Morble'ead!" Sweetly along the Salem road Bloom of orchard and lilac showed.

Each verse terminates with an interjectional refrain.

And Ruth broke into the joyous refrain of the song as she ended.

As they tramped down the tree-bordered, cobble-paved high road, we heard, for the first time in Belgium, the lilting refrain of that music-hall ballad which had become the English soldiers' marching song: It's a long way to Tipperary, It's a long way to go; It's a long way to Tipperary To the sweetest girl I know!

And when the chorus came the maskers lost much of their dignity and waved their arms about and shouted the refrain so loud that doors up and down the hall opened and wondering voices shouted "Shut up!"

" By this massive refrain, ringing in at intervals above the ceaseless buzz, murmur, and clang throughout the buildings, every man's work was mightily nerved and inspired.

Thus we can call such a poem as this one well-known of O'Shaughnessy's "We are the music-makers, We are the dreamers of dreams," decadent because it conveys nothing but the mere delight in an obvious rhythm of words, or such a poem as Morris's "Two red roses across the moon;" because a meaningless refrain, merely pleasing in its word texture, breaks in at intervals on the reader.

This is the melancholy refrain of all the official communications from 1530 to 1536.

The most trying were the chronic grumblers, who did not know what they wanted, nor what they ought to have, and adopted the moody refrain:

When nature is eloquent, why should a mortal refrain from speech?

Women sit and watch the body, chanting a mournful refrain until he is interred.

When the last echo of the boatman's horn had melted among the darkling hills, he turned as instinctively as a sun-worshipper faces the east and drank in another musical refrain.

And the high-pitched nasal refrain of it is 'Consti-tuci-oun!']

And like the dripping of rain In gardens naked and dead Is the obdurate thin refrain Of our youth which is presently dead.

Pathetic refrain of OLD MORALITY murmured again to-night: Members wanted to know about various things; but in OLD MORALITY'S mind, fate of the Tithes Bill, intentions of Government touching proposed new Standing Order, and allocation of money originally intended for Publicans, all a blank.

And through it all, Ina's fierce words ran in a perpetual refrain through her brain: "Love never casts awayLove never casts away.