Dame Nature gave the mould; his sire combin'd Due culture, exercise of limbs and mind, Till the rare strippling, now no longer boy, Chang'd his fond parents' fearful hope for joy.

Kundry raised herself From where she lay along the bosky woods, And hoarsely broke in: "Yea, his noble sire Was Gamuret, in battle slain and lost A month before his child had seen the light.

He took the Duke apart, and said in his ear, "Sire, whence is this that your niece tarries so long, and comes not to the dancing?

Oh, I'll forget My sire was Colchis' king, and I'll forget My ancestors were gods, and I'll forget The past, and all that threatens still!

He thought of the legend of a dragon-lady, more fair than the flowers are, without an equal amongst daughters of men, humanly lovely to look on although her sire was a dragon, yet one who traced his descent from gods of the elder days, and so it was that she went in all her ways divine, like the earliest ones of her race, who were holier than the emperor.

My sire is the stooping Cheviot mist, My mother the heath in her purple train; And every flower on her gown I've kissed Over and over and over again.

Relations mix not kindly; shun Inviting brothers; sire and son Is not a wise selection: Too intimate, they either jar In converse, or the evening mar By mutual circumspection.

" "This, sire, is the warranty for my conduct," Harry said, producing the document signed by Cromwell.

The demi-gods are they that were born of earthly women, but their sires are the elder gods who walked of old among men.

The mother of Solano was a she-devil under the saddle, and killed two men by throwing herself upon them; and the sire was Satanas, of whom stories are told around the camp-fires as far south as San Luis Obispo.

However this may be, there is no doubt that the sire would be a wire-hair Fox-terrier, and, although the pedigree therefore may not have been quite right, the terrier was invariably pure bred.

" "Sire," was the reply, "if he proves himself a worthy knight it will be more to your honour than mine, for it is your kind praise which has encouraged him to undertake such a feat of arms as this.

A'QUILINE (3 syl.), Raymond's steed, whose sire was the wind.

He was in all points high-bred and renowned for race and lineage, for his sire was Ocab and his dam Helweh, and these were horses regarded by the Arabs as quicker than lightning.

But if your sires were honest men And unblamed you, Sit down thereon serenely then, And eke sleep too.

LULLABY OF AN INFANT CHIEF O hush thee, my baby, thy sire was a knight, Thy mother a lady both lovely and bright; The woods and the glens, from the towers which we see, They all are belonging, dear baby, to thee.

"In feasts we sat at silken boards, Endraped with silver gossameres, And 'round me sat my bearded lords, And maidens served whose sires were peers.

Oh, ill-judging sire of an innocent son 25 Who must now be a wanderer!

Thy sire was old surly M, the unapproachable church-warden of Bishopsgate.

"Here, Sire," he said, "in my despatch-bag, are three purses filled with gold tokens, with a device expressive of the love borne towards your Majesty by your people.

Woman's origin was more ethereal and poetic; her sire was a noonday sunbeam, her mother a sylvan echo.

Thus, Sire, would it not be a cruel and an unnatural thing that a mother should expire without having once more seen her beloved son, without having heard one word of consolation from his lips, without having obtained his pardon for the involuntary wrongs of which she may have been guilty towards him?