It was touching and warm-hearted, and it was rendered a little solemn by Mary Pratt's putting into her lover's hand a pocket-bible, with an earnest request that he would not forget to consult its pages.

When winds go round and round in bands, And thrum upon the door, And birds take places overhead, To bear them orchestra, I crave him grace, of summer boughs, If such an outcast be, He never heard that fleshless chant Rise solemn in the tree, As if some caravan of sound On deserts, in the sky, Had broken rank, Then knit, and passed In seamless company.

The Seeker was deadly solemn.

Very strange, to unaccustomed eyes and ears, was the effect of this functionhalf solemn and half grotesque, with an effect intermediate between that of a religious rite and that of a comic opera.

Mars Dugal' look' mighty solemn.

No child could miss the point of the solemn parable to which I have referred.

The former are all joyous and happy, full of gladness and merriment, full of life and animation; the latter solemn, deep, profound, lulling to the senses; not sorrowful nor sad, yet still such as form a calm and quiet lullaby, under the influence of which one glides away into slumber, and sleeps quietly until dawn.

Oh, thou hast made me break a Vow, Diana, A sacred solemn Vow; And made me wrong the sweetest Innocence, That ever blest the Earth.

The pitying Goddess easily comply'd, Follow'd in triumph, and adorn'd her Guide; While Claudia, blushing still far past Disgrace, March'd silent on with a slow solemn Pace: Nor yet from some was all Distrust remov'd, Tho' Heav'n such Virtue by such Wonders prov'd.'

It is a very solemn thingtoo solemn for meto say of any words of our Lord's they mean exactly this or that, and no more.

The former are all joyous and happy, full of gladness and merriment, full of life and animation; the latter solemn, deep, profound, lulling to the senses; not sorrowful nor sad, yet still such as form a calm and quiet lullaby, under the influence of which one glides away into slumber, and sleeps quietly until dawn.

"Might as well give the lad a lift," he said to a man who stood by, smiling; "he looked awful solemn when the last train before went and left him.

" Worth continued solemn.