Thy brightness doth amaze!

He in eternal brightness doth exist; Us unto darkness he hath brought, and here, Where day and night alternate, is your sphere.

And there's beamin', streamin' brightness jest a-gildin' all the place, And yer somehow seem ter feel it in yer heart and in yer face.

From his bright helm and shield did burn a most unwearied fire, Like rich Antumnus' golden lamp, whose brightness men admire Past all the other host of stars when, with his cheerful face Fresh washed in lofty ocean waves, he doth the sky enchase.

The women, neatly and cleanly clad, sat in long rows and offered their provisions for sale by the light of hundreds of torches; and, when the business was over, the slopes of the mountains were studded all over with flickering little points of brightness proceeding from the torches carried by the homeward-bound market women.

The New York World says that "the fiction of McClure's is of the brightness readers expect and always find."

And thus thy charms in brightness rise When wit and pleasure round thee play, When mirth sits smiling in thine eyes, Who but admires their sprightly ray?

Each star with peculiar brightness shone.

As early youth in brightness vies, With advent of the day, When Sol first opes his golden eyes, And chases night away.