Colonel Killigrew all this time had been trolling forth a jolly battle-song, and ringing his glass toward the buxom figure of the Widow Wycherley.

"Merrily oh! merrily oh!"Moore's Tyrolese Song.

Young sir, by these same signs and portents my soul is uplifted and hope singeth a new song within me!"

He sang as he rodesweetly an old sentimental Spanish song, something his mother had taught him; but it was not of his mother he thought, or only, perhaps, deep down in his subconsciousness, of that early mother-worship, age-old and most mysterious, which now he had translated and transferred.

Her's were specially songs of the inner life.

And I sang there, toosilly little songs that Marie used to sing to Lester.

auldand he used to sing the 'Flowers o' the Forest' afore a' the ither songs, and ye sing it that fine it makes a body amaist like to greet.

An ancient song comes back upon mine ear I had forgotten it, and willingly The Parcæ's song, which horribly they sang, What time, hurl'd headlong from his golden seat, Fell Tantalus.

MEPHISTOPHELES We heard erewhile, unless I'm wrong, Voices well trained in chorus pealing? Certes, most choicely here must song Re-echo from this vaulted ceiling!

And he who brings the stars into the street And builds that shining ladder for our feet, Dwells in no mystic Abora aloof, But shares the shelter of the common roof; He learns great metres from the thunderous hum, And all his songs pulse to the human beat.