Phosphoric sparks hissed and crackled forth, and coalesced into a blue lambent flame, which concentrated itself upon a depicted figure, whose precise attitude the ratcatcher assumed as he dropped upon his knees.

While love, unknown among the blest, Parent of thousand wild desires[b], The savage and the human breast Torments alike with raging fires[c]; With bright, but oft destructive, gleam, Alike, o'er all his lightnings fly; Thy lambent glories only beam Around the fav'rites of the sky.

For sky and water were all one lambent gray by this.

The new-born brimstone butterflies were upon the wing, a flutter of lambent green.

About us and around floated lambent reds and blues and greens.

For his delicate humour and lambent satire always had in view simply the practical object of clearing a plain way for the good life through the "Aberglaube" of theology.

" =336.= O Boatman, wind that horn again; For never did the listening air Upon its lambent bosom bear So wild, so soft, so sweet a strain.

The eye beamed fitfully upon them, occasionally a wave of lambent tremulousness passed across it; its weirdness was an excuse for their drawing nearer each other in playful terror.