The thought we read is related to the thought which springs up in ourselves, as the fossil-impress of some prehistoric plant to a plant as it buds forth in spring-time.

MARJORIE'S ALMANAC Robins in the tree-top, Blossoms in the grass, Green things a-growing Everywhere you pass; Sudden little breezes, Showers of silver dew, Black bough and bent twig Budding out anew; Pine-tree and willow-tree, Fringed elm and larch, Don't you think that May-time's Pleasanter than March?

] Others the utmost boughs of trees doe crop, And brouze the woodbine twigges that freshly bud; This with full bit* doth catch the utmost top Of some soft willow, or new growen stud**; This with sharpe teeth the bramble leaves doth lop, 85 And chaw the tender prickles in her cud; The whiles another high doth overlooke Her owne like image in a christall brooke.

the sunlight floods the earth, Yet all is dark to me; The flowers may gaily bud and bloom, The earth be fair to see; And "sweetheart, sweetheart," evermore The mocking-bird may sing, But in a fairer land thine eyes Are opening to the spring.

But when the delights and joys of life fall away in old age, as the leaves from a tree in autumn, fame buds forth opportunely, like a plant that is green in winter.

She saw now that there was a trellis high up, all over it, on which grew a vine; but the leaves were scarcely budding yet.

The trees were budding symmetrically along the avenue below; and Paul, looking down, saw, between windows and tree-tops, a pair of tall iron gates with gilt ornaments, the marble curb of a semi-circular drive, and bands of spring flowers set in turf.

At the edges of the great timbered swamps thickets of young winter-bare cypresses were budding yet more vividly than the willows, while in the depths of those overflowed forests, near and far down their lofty gray colonnades, the dwarfed swamp-maple drooped the winged fruit of its limp bush in pink and flame-yellow and rose-red masses until it touched its own image in the still flood.

All my bones ache, Honey-bud, and I'm cross with talking to so many Yankees, anddo you believe me !

But the remorseless materialism of the daynot the philosophic materialism of the few, but the religious materialism of the manycrushes out all the delicate buddings forth of the childish thought, and bandages the eyes that might otherwise see.

Magnolia and laurel grew richer and glossier; azaleas were budding; dog-wood twigs swelled; and somewhere, in some sheltered hollow, a spray of jasmine must have been in bloom, because the faint and exquisite scent haunted all the woodlands.

Hence, on learning of his death, she reproached herself for ever having left him"the tree of whose fame, with its eternally budding shoots, had been committed to my care.