By bending forward where they are; But Memory, with a backward tread, Communes with them afar! "The joys we lose are but forecast, And we shall find them all once more; We look behind us for the past, But, lo! 'tis all before!" See Memoir of S. S. Prentiss, edited by his Brother, and published by Charles Scribner's Sons.

I will commune with myself awhile under the pear trees.

They were like reflective wayfarers who saturate themselves with the country atmosphere and commune deeply with its soul.

Lucy remained with her friend; and I make no doubt their spirits devoutly communed with ours the while; for I mastered sufficient fortitude to be present at St. Michael's.

The Christian recluses were thus led to bury themselves in cells among the mountains and deserts, in dreary and uncomfortable caverns, in isolated retreats far from the habitation of men,yea, among wild beasts, clothing themselves in their skins and eating their food, in order to commune with God more effectually, and propitiate His favor.

So true is it that nature is ever ready to commune familiarly with us, whereas by our very brethren we are looked upon as enemies to shun, and are incapable of making ourselves understood by them.

As this particular "porky" advanced upon Muskwa and Thor, he was communing happily with himself, the chuckling notes he made sounding very much like a baby's cooing.

Such was my somewhat chaotic state of mind when I had fled the billiard-room in my turn, and put on my overcoat and cap to commune with myself outside.

There she was, he communed savagely with his plate, crying one minute, and the next all smiles and laughter.

And, with moving lips and down-drawn lids, from beneath which the large tears stole one by one, like crystal globes, this suffering spirit communed with its God, silently.

During this half-hour, Mercy had been sitting in her low chair by the fire, looking steadily into the leaping blaze, and communing very sternly with her own heart on the subject of Stephen White.