MARX, JOSEPH L. When the bough breaks.

One hundred and twenty-seven feet from bough-end to bough-end!

Once or twice he heard Gloria stir restlessly upon her fir-bough bed.

Sometimes only a sudden flinging of moist earth upon the fire saves it from blazing up into the flax, and sometimes one careless second's oversight loses the whole,flax, spruce-bough house, all, in a light blaze, and gone in a breath.

Noise prevents the bough BUZZING [Further off.]

However, we cut three boughs cut of a tree, sticking them at a distance from us, which it seems, in that country, is not only a token of truce and amity, but when poles or boughs are set up on the other side, it is a sign the truce is accepted.

Beneath the shade which beechen-boughs diffuse, You, Tityrus, entertain your Silvan muse: Round the wide world in banishment we roam, Forc'd from our pleasing fields, and native home: While stretch'd at ease you sing your happy loves: And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. TITYRUS.

It is calm now, on this day of the great festival, sweeping serenely by rocky capes, and rounding into fragrant bays, where overarching boughs droop and feather.

* Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top, When the wind blows, the cradle will rock, When the bough bends, the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, bough, cradle, and all.

At every pause, before thy mind possessed, Old Runic bards shall seem to rise around, With uncouth lyres, in many-coloured vest, Their matted hair with boughs fantastic crowned: Whether thou bid'st the well-taught hind repeat

The blood and words came out together, as a green bough hisses and spits in the fire.

The beautiful elms were in a wild agony; their graceful little bough-tips were all snapped off and whirled away upon the blast, leaving them in a ragged blight.

The boughs bore leaves of green, that for want of sunshine had faded into almost lily-white; and from the underside of this natural sylvan bridge depended long and beautiful tresses of ivy, which waved gently in the breeze, that might, poetically speaking, be called the breath of the waterfall.

a greening bough Lovers yet unborn galore, Like Alice all the wide world o'er; But, darling, I am now too old To change.

Afterwards they rolled themselves in their blankets, and went to sleep on their spruce-bough spring mattresses spread near the fire on the snow.

"The earth late choak'd with showers, Is now array'd in green, Her bosom springs with flowers, The air dissolves her teen; The woods are deck'd with leaves, And trees are clothed gay, And Flora, crown'd with sheaves, With oaken boughs doth play; The birds upon the trees Do sing with pleasant voices, And chant, in their degrees, Their loves and lucky choices.

The star-whorled, fan-spread branches droop under the soft wreathsdroop and press flatly to the trunk; presently the point of overloading is reached, there is a soft sough and muffled dropping, the boughs recover, and the weighting goes on until the drifts have reached the midmost whorls and covered up the branches.

" He smoked and smoked, eying the while A huge tree hydra-like in growth Moon-tingedwith crook'd boughs rent or lopped Itself a haggard forest.

He threw their arches out, and interwove the groinings of their vaults, like the bough-roofage overhead.

Thousands of poles support half-acres of the spruce-bough shelf, beneath which is a dark, cool region, crossed with foot-paths, and not unfrequently sprinkled and washed by the surf,a most kindly office on the part of the sea, you will allow, when once you have scented the fish-offal perpetually dropping from the evergreen fish-house above.

From the broken waters riseth ever, Fresh and cool, a soft and cloud-like spray; And where through the boughs slant sunbeams quiver, On the mist the sudden rainbows play.

Now it stole forth as the odour of a dried balsam bough steals from the corner of a loft whither it has been thrown carelessly.

The myrtle bough bids lovers live A sprig of hawthorn has the same meaning as a sprig of myrtle: it gives hope to the loverthe sweet heliotrope tells the depth of his passion,if he would charge his mistress with levity he presents the larkspur,and a leaf of nettle speaks her cruelty.