I feel in a dream, and am tired to death; my eyelids droop of themselves; I am like one of those houses there with closed shutters.

I saw the Bonnie Lassie's eyelids quiver, but her face was cold and impassive as she turned to the visitor.

Thou with modest eyelids downcast, I with but ill stifled glee!

Again the minstrel bows his head in woe, And the hot tear-drops from his eyelids flow, And chanting now a mournful melody, O'er Erech's fall, thus sang an elegy: "How long, O Ishtar, will thy face be turned, While Erech desolate doth cry to thee?

When sleep hangs heavy on my eyes, I think of debts I fain would pay; And then, as flies night's shade from day, Sleep from my heavy eyelids flies.

A bear was said to have been seen here yesterday, so we kept our weather eyelids lifting, but were not favoured with a sight of him.

" With a stately bow Mrs. Van Buren took the letter and hastily read it through, her lip quivering a little and her eyelids growing moist as Ethie described the dreariness of that dreadful day when "Aunt Van Buren came up from Boston and broke her heart."

And there the body lay, age after age, Mute, breathing, beating, warm, and undecaying, Like one asleep in a green hermitage, With gentle sleep about its eyelids playing, And living in its dreams beyond the rage Of death or life; while they were still arraying In liveries ever new the rapid, blind, And fleeting generations of mankind.

* IN SIGHT OF MONADNOCK After the gloom of gray Atlantic weather, our ship came to America in a flood of winter sunshine that made unaccustomed eyelids blink, and the New Yorker, who is nothing if not modest, said, 'This isn't a sample of our really fine days.

A faint and roseate fire about my brow she sheds, Soft mystery of azure above my eyelids spreads, Bends low upon my breast her regal star-crowned tresses

And shouldst thou, wondering, mark a tear, Unconscious, from her eyelids break, Be pitiful, and soothe the fear That man's strong heart may ne'er partake.