The water about these boulders is shallow, and the lily-pads and grasses make a luxuriant pasture for the deer.

It had been smiling and pleased before at the sight of the faint, white lily-petals and the sunlight on her feet and the fragrance of the orchids in her hair; but now it was lit with an inner radiance.

Night fell, but still he rode on; and he came at last to the place where the seven roads met, and there he saw the lodge of green boughs and lily-flowers which Nicolette had made.

" Agnes, who had been sitting abstractedly on the parapet, with her head drooped over the lily-spray, now seemed to collect herself.

I remember, I remember, The roses, red and white; The violets and the lily-cups, Those flowers made of light!

For a moment Dong-Yung saw the look in his eyes that engulfed her in happiness; then it was gone, and he looked away past her, across the opening lily-buds and the black rampart of the wall, at something distant, yet precious.

I asked the melancholy man, the romantic green hush and the gleaming water not irrelevantly flashing on my fancy that far-away immortal picture of the lily-maid of Astolat on her strange journey, with a letter in her hand for Lancelot.

" He turnedboth the old men stood stock still behind him, looking down on the lily-bed.

She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces thro' the room, She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She looked down to Camelot.

Expound to me, now, the meaning of that water-lily leaf and its grand simple curve, as it lies sleeping there in the back eddy.' 'Oh, I am too amused to philosophise.

If you pinch the thick stems, water will ooze out, for they are partly hollow, like the pond-lily stem.

At a bend in the road opposite the water-lily swamp, while I was cooling myself in the shade of a friendly pine-tree,enjoying at the same time a fence overrun with Cherokee roses,a man and his little boy came along in a wagon.

I cain't see nothin' but lilies east'ardworlds o'flowers comin' with the crevasse water behind 'em."

Worlds o' lilies driftin' to sea with sweet water in the bulbs!"

Once on a time there was a pool Fringed all about with flag-leaves cool And spotted with cow-lilies garish, Of frogs and pouts the ancient parish.

But if alarmed it would dive, for capybaras swim with equal facility on or below the surface; and if they wish to hide they rise gently among the rushes or water-lily leaves with only their nostrils exposed.

" Have you not sometimes seen, upon the bosom of dark, stagnant waters, a pure, white water-lily lift up its head, breathing there a fresh and delicate fragrance, and deriving its existence thenceyet partaking in nothing of the loathsome nature of the pool, nor ever sullied by its close contact with the foul element beneath?

Lily-mother was unwilling at first.

Who that has stood by some still lake and watched a stretch of water-lilies opening in the dawn but has sent out somewhere into space a profound thankfulness to "whatever gods there be" that he has been allowed to gaze on so fair a sight.

There was only a short prairie between him and , a prairie thick with lily-rootsone could almost walk over their heads, so close, and gleaming in the moonlight.

And yonder are the withered lily-stalks That graced her wrist.