After the monks have received their annual portion of this, the mornings suddenly show the hoar-frost, and on this account the king always begs the monks to make the wheat ripen before they receive their portion.

I disquiet myself in vain with the effort to hit upon some characteristic feature, or assemblage of features, that shall convey to the reader the influence of hoar antiquity lingering into the present daylight, as I so often felt it in these old English scenes.

Err shall they not, who resolute explore Times gloomy backward with judicious eyes; And, scanning right the practices of yore, Shall deem our hoar progenitors unwise.

The hoar frost colder sparkles And spreads its silver o'er the fields, Alas!

If now ye should take this my son and anything happened to him in the way ye should bring my hoar hair with sorrow to hell.

The cherished fields Put on their winter robe of purest white; 'Tis brightness all, save where the new snow melts Along the mazy current; low the woods Bow their hoar head; and ere the languid sun Faint from the west emits his evening ray, Earth's universal face, deep-hid and chill, Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide The works of man.

The Weeping Willow That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream,[013] has had its interest with people in general much increased by its association with the history of Napoleon in the Island of St. Helena.

Kneeling on the hoar moss on one knee, writing on the other, if the stiff scrawl could be called writing!

Above these the hoar olives thickened, and the vines climbed from terrace to terrace.

On we pressed, crawling our little way across the Vast, upon whose hoar silence, from Eternity until then, Bootes only, and that Great Bear, had watched.

Down, swiftly down, to raid the Bayt Ullah, the sacred Ka'aba, holy of holies to more than two hundred million Moslem fanatics, each of whom would with joy have died to keep the hand of the unbelieving dog from so much as touching that hoar structure or the earth of the inviolate Haram.

Far different life to what tradition hoar Transmits of days more bless'd in times of yore.

It cannot be honestly said that the bulk of this slender poem is of any very transcendent merit; but the final song stands apart from the rest, and deserves notice both on its own account and for the sake of that to which it served as herald: Nymphs and Shepherds dance no more By sandy Ladons Lillied banks; On old Lycaeus or Cyllene hoar Trip no more in twilight ranks;

Beyond, a blanched salt-plain gleamed hoar-white in the on-coming dusk; and farther off, the dunes began again.

I would have him stand there until, in after years, in a nobler strain than that of Byron, he could say: And thou didst shine, thou rolling moon, upon All this, and cast a wide and tender light, Which softened down the hoar austerity Of rugged desolation.

So chanted the Parcae; The banish'd one hearkens The song, the hoar captive Immur'd in his dungeon, His children's doom ponders, And boweth his head.