Ah, my soul, for such a wonder, Wilt thou not undo the door?" Evadne sang the words softly in the twilight: sang them with a great note of longing in her pleading voice.

No one could stand by and see this abjectness of need, this helplessness, this pathetic faith which was almost fatalistic in the foreign doctor's miraculous powersit recalled that beseeching cry in the New Testament story, "Lord, if thou wilt thou canst"without being deeply, poignantly glad that there were such men as Joe Carbrook.

Or wilt thou, deaf to all our fears excite, Forsake thy friends, and shun the pending fight?

If thou thy sire dost honor in thy youth, His lore thou gladly wilt receive; In manhood, dost thou spread the bounds of truth, Then may thy son a higher goal achieve.

"My name is Tuck, and I go no farther than this spot, if thou wilt haply but let me stay while this same wedding is going forward.

O wilt never, never leave me desolate again, my lordart thou minemine henceforth as I am thine, Beltane?

When thou art up, the wood-lanes shall be strawed With violets, cowslips, and sweet marigolds, For thee to trample and to trace upon; And I will teach thee how to kill the deer, To chase the hart, and how to rouse the roe, If thou wilt live to love and honour me. AMADINE.

Some dried grass-tufts from the wide flowery plain, A muscle shell from the lone fairy shore, Some antlers from tall woods which never more To the wild deer a safe retreat can yield, An eagle's feather which adorned a Brave, Well-nigh the last of his despairing band, For such slight gifts wilt thou extend thy hand

Most securely Wilt thou pursue the nearest duty: let The pilot fix his eye upon the pole-star.

Eat, then, without fear; seldom wilt thou be more welcome.

Not so ungallantly surely Wilt thou act, as not to see One who comes to speak with thee? CHRYSANTHUS.

And thou, Messer Gastaldo, wilt graciously aid me in their escortsince, verily, they owe much to thy chivalry.

His defiance wilted visibly.

Thou wilt consider this when thou art dying, and wilt depart more contentedly by reflecting thus: 'I am going away from a life in which even my associates, on behalf of whom I have striven, and cared, and prayed so much, themselves wish me to depart, hoping perchance to get some little advantage by it.'

Go wheresoever thou wilt, never canst thou pass across the borders of his realms, and within these realms vain it is for mortals to try to hide themselves when he would smite them.

I springs right up, like de wilted roses missy brought to life de oder day; and when de Sea-flower come to us, I tink she sent to smooth ober de rough places, dat hab been gathering trough de long years ob my life in slabery.