For on the hill or in the dell, Or where the brook went leaping by Or where the fields would surge and swell With golden wheat or bearded rye, I felt her heart against my own, I breathed the sweetness of her breath, Till all the cark of time had flown,

" The boy thought of the contrast between the light, golden-rye fields with their delicate blades that spring up in one summer, and the dark spruce forest with its solid trees which took many years to ripen for harvest.

Corn stops at 2,000 to 3,000 feet, though a little rye may be grown up to 5,000 feet in sunny places.

the ripe and hoary rye Waving white and billowy, Gives a husky rustle, as Fitful breezes fluttering pass.

BREWIS.Heat a pint of rich milk to boiling, remove from fire, and beat into it thoroughly and quickly a cup of very fine stale rye or Graham bread crumbs.

Finally the rye,the 'particularly tall rye' in which, as Colonel Siborne says, the action was fought,was conscientiously sought for, and found, after much trouble, at Henly-on-Thames.