"O bright, O beautiful, for thee Are matron-cares begun.

But would not Sybil to the matron cling, And fear to leave the shelter of her wing?

my aunt Autonöe,' he cried; 'Remember how your own Actæon died.' Deaf to his cries, the frantic matron crops One stretched-out arm, the other Ino lops.

" She answers that talk of matron dignities and household tasks wearies her: "I would renounce them all for Sappho's bay: Forego them all for room to chant out free The silent rhythms I hum within my heart, And so for ever leave my weary spinning!" Margaret J. Preston, Old Song and New.

Pretty young women chatter, laugh, and talk, and assume all sorts of picturesque attitudes as they fill their waterpots; the village matrons gossip, and sometimes quarrel, as they pull away at the windlass over the deep cool well.

Exalted Prince, Whose peerless knighthood, like the remeant sun, After too long a night, regilds our clay, Late silvered by the reflex lunar beams Of your celestial lady's matron graces Abbot

The patriarch, with his silver hair, The matron grave, the maiden fair.

Hence; for Alma Mater chooses Not to be for ever sober: But, like stately matron gray, Calling child and grandchild round her, Will for them at least be gay; Share for once their holiday; And, knowing she will sleep the sounder, Cheerier-hearted on the morrow Rise to grapple care and sorrow, Grandly leads the dance adown, and joins the children's play.

A fair young mother, pure as fair, A matron heart and virgin soul!

Frequent private conferences were now held between Thorndyke, his two daughters, and Elizabeth Wareinga woman approaching middle-age, whom, under the specious pretence that Mrs. Thorndyke's increasing ailments rendered the services of an experienced matron indispensable, he had lately installed at the farm.

Our first father Smiled with superior love, as Jupiter On Juno smiles, when he impregns the clouds, That shed May flowers, and pressed her matron lip With kisses pure.

A brooch wrongly placed, a tress of hair ill-arranged, and the enraged matron orders her slave to be lashed and crucified.

She observed him with interest as he made himself entertaining to Neil and Dorothy, and blessed him for his tact when he presently went off with Mrs. Chase, to do her special honour as the only young matron present.

10 Of man mature, or matron sage? Or old man toying with his age? I asked'twas whispered; The device To each and all might well belong: It is the Spirit of Paradise 15 That prompts such work, a Spirit strong, That gives to all the self-same bent Where life is wise and innocent.

We'll die or we'll fight, Sing ho, for the cavaliers! As we gallop through the villages or through the sylvan glades, Merry maid and buxom matron smile and wave as we ride by; There are broken hearts behind us as well as broken blades, For the cavaliers are gallants till the war-notes rend the sky.

Hard by we find a decent matron super-intending her tea-table at the lamp-post, and tendering to a remarkably select company little, blue, delft cups of bohea, filled from time to time from a prodigious kettle, that simmers unceasingly on its charcoal tripod, though the refractory cad often protests that the fuel fails before the boiling stage is consummated by an ebullition.

But rather would I think thee great; That rumours upward went, And pierced the palisades of state In which thy rank was pent; And that a Roman matron thou, Too noble for thy spouse, The far-heard grandeur must allow, And sit with pondering brows.