Faint, before this period, had been the hope, indistinct the prospect, which even good men enjoyed of the heavenly kingdom.

Wind, rain, and gloom are its attributes; the sun Scarce spreads through ether the dejected day, Faint are his gleams, and ineffectual shoot His struggling rays, in horizontal lines, Through the thick air; as clothed in cloudy storm, Weak, wan, and broad, he skirts the southern sky; And soon descending, to the long dark night.

Roswell had seen chemical experiments that produced wonderful illuminations; but faint, indeed, were the most glowing of those artificial torches, to the floods of light that came streaming out of the void, on missions of millions and millions of miles.

Faint and shadowy in our memory are certain ruined structures lingering Stonehenge-like on the Cambridge "Delta,"and mysterious pits adjoining, into which Freshmen were decoyed to stumble, and of which we find that vestiges still remain.

No answer came from the dome of blue, nor comfort lurked in the cypress-trees; But faint came a whisper borne along on the scented wings of the passing breeze: "Little gray lamb that prays this night, I cannot give thee a fleece of white.

" Faint, indeed, are the delineations from Memory's tablet, upon this little map, but enough, perchance, to lead the contemplative mind to reflect upon the vicissitudes and changes of its little day, and teach us to prepare for a better world, "where change comes not.

She is sinking now, and there, beneath his eye Fading, the poor cold hand falls languidly, And faint is all her breath.

Faint now as his voice are the voices of the shepherds who are gone, youth and maiden and children; dimly I see them, vaguely I hear them; at last there remains only "the hoar sea's infinite spray."

A faint "Yes, sir" or two was the reply.

" The "tulip tall," "the Naiad-like lily," "the jessamine faint," "the sweet tuberose," were all "ministering angels" to the "companionless Sensitive Plant," and each tried to be a source of joy to all the rest.