The roaring dam of watery fountains the "dam of fountains" Thy beck doth make surcease her sounding.

Thus the cry of "Property in danger" ended, in 1851, in the restoration of open despotism, which every sensible observer of French affairs expected after Louis Napoleon was made President, his Presidency being looked upon only as a pinch-beck imitation of the Consulate of 1799-1804.

For them the viewless forms of air obey, Their bidding heed, and at their beck repair.

I'd have liked to see the old place and the fells again, and when I was half asleep I thought I heard the beck splash among the thorns and the pee-wits crying.