Comfort ye, comfort ye, my lordere long thou shalt be strong, aye, and mightier e'en than aforetime.

Thou art a babe weeping in a place of shadows, so will I go beside thee in the dark to soothe and comfort thee.

Where such peace and comfort reign, None observes the window-pane, Where your wan face sadly peers Through a mist of falling tears At a joy you never know, Carrier from Menaggio!

Le comfort moderne.

Neither to him across the stubble field May stack nor garner any comfort bring, Who loveth more this jasmine he hath made, The little tender rhyme he yet can sing, Than yesterday, with all its pompous yield, Or all its shaken laurels on his head.

I know my dear, if I were in the grave, you would not long continue at home; prevent not your happiness on my account, whose only comfort centres in you.

And let my pleasing wordes of comfort chase These duskie cloudes of thy uniust dispaire Farre from thy hart, and let a pleasing hope Of young Pertillos happy safe returne Establish all your ill-devining thoughts; So shall you make me cheerfull that am sad, And feede your hopes with fond illusions.

I helped raise her, and we learned her to do all kinds of work, what is useful, and she was my comfort child in my troubles.

"We were talking, Mademoiselle, at that moment of the things which brighten and comfort exile.

Lighter than an owlet's shadow We will whirl it through the air, Through blue regions shrill and bare, So you may in comfort fare

COLLEGE FRIENDSHIPS CHARLES CUTHBERT HALL '72 My other self, my bosom friend, Thy faithful arm in mine enwinding, Let us fare forth amid the trees, Each in the other comfort finding.

Who weds as I have to enforced sheets, His care increaseth, but his comfort fleets.

I see before me broad rivers and streams springing from that fountain, whence all solid comfort flows; but great weakness, much unfaithfulness, many omissions and errors in myself.

" "Good little comfort-giver!"

As bubbles on the Ocean's breast, When gloriously calm, will rise; As shadows from o'er-clouded skies, Or some few angry waves may dance Nor ruffle that serene expanse; So lightly o'er my comfort glides Each adverse feelingso subsides Each discontentand leaves me blest!" NOTES.

To part with a sum so small As each will spare, who makes up a shilling To comfort himPoor old Paul!

To this happiness of theirs, let not old age any whit detract, but as their years, so let their mutual love and comfort increase."

"But," the little wife had rejoined, "it'll be a mite o' comfort a-knowin' a body's so near, even ef yer can't git tew 'em.

LXV "Barred every comfort labour could procure, Suffering what no endurance could assuage, I was compelled to seek my father's door, Though loth to be a burthen on his age.

He wore a Cloak the same as women wear As one whose blood did needful comfort lack; His face look'd pale as if it had grown fair; And, furthermore he had upon his back, Beneath his cloak, a round and bulky Pack; A load of wool or raiment as might seem.

Grace is a taste of bliss, a glorious gift, Which can the soul to heavenly comforts lift: It will not shine to me, whose mind is drowned In sorrows, and with worldly troubles bound; It will not deign within that house to dwell, Where dryness reigns, and proud distractions swell.

And I turned silently upon my way, And sought His untrod forests and the hills, My free companions of no guile nor art Their holy strength is more than rocks and clay; I sought the comfort loneliness instills: Dear Christ!

Only your heart can pity Now, where it laughed and passed, Now you can bend to comfort men, One with them all at last, You shall have back your laughter, You shall have back your song, Only the world is your brother now, Only your soul is strong!

She is your comfort, your old age's bliss; Why should your age so great a comfort miss?

We pray for learned men in their studies, that they may discover arts and sciences which shall enrich and comfort nations yet unborn.