Merrily the brook laughed and sang among the willows, leaping in rainbow-hues over its pebbly bed; sweet piped the birds in brake and thicket, yet of all their music none was there so good to hear as the rich tones of Beltane the Smith.

By countless thousands at a time he tosses them back whence they came; but as they go, he changes them, under our eyes, into prismatic globes, holding very light of very light in their tiny circles, shredding and sorting it into blazing lines of rainbow color.

But save to Blossy's eye alone there were no longer any rainbow tints in the little, old trunk; for every ribbon and every cord had faded into that musty, yellow brown which is dyed by the passing of many years.

Some of the fascination that the past and its fairy kingdom exerted over these poets may be found in this stanza from Russell's The Gates of Dreamland: "Oh, the gates of the mountain have opened once again And the sound of song and dancing falls upon the ears of men, And the Land of Youth lies gleaming, flushed with rainbow light and mirth.

I will not let him depart He shall close his beautiful rainbow wings And sing his song in my heart.

SCOYEN, EIVIND T. The rainbow canyons, by Eivind T. Scoyen and Frank J. Taylor.

The bright drops they scattered fell all around in a grateful shower, and flew up again from the heated earth in the form of a white mist touched with rainbow colours, filling the air with a refreshing coolness.

SEE MOON, GLENN W. Story parade, rainbow book.

Rainbow cottage.

Think of her beautya shining ball, sky-blue and sun-lit over one half, the other bathed in starry night, reflecting the heavens from all her waters, myriads of lights and shadows in the folds of her mountains and windings of her valleys, she would be a spectacle of rainbow glory, could one only see her from afar as we see parts of her from her own mountain-tops.

The rainbow cat.

" The rainbow bridge which spans heaven and earth in Scandinavian mythology is called "Bif´rost.

They have broken your heart, I know; And the rainbow gleams Of your youthful dreams Are things of the long ago;

Fetch dem rainbow ribbons, En I'll dress in blue!"

Rainbow arches, Highways of dreaming passion, have too long, Young as he is, diverted wish and hope From the unpretending ground we mortals tread; Then shatter the delusion, break it up And set him free.

In the basket, on the cool, damp moss, and lightly covered with the cress, lay a half dozen fine rainbow trout.

A RAINBOW WEDDING

A tray of red ribbon streamers was passed, and each girl pinned one on her blouse, as the beginning of her rainbow badge.

But Turkey as an independent Power has already ceased to exist, and Tekin Alp and the Nationalists still dream on with rainbow visions of Ottomanisation, the vistas of which stretch far into Persia and the plains of the Volga.

The rainbow hills, the tender bluish mists, the luminous radiance of the spring, have the lotus charm.

To hail the morn, The infant pours it from his rosy mouth, Ere, o'er the fields, with blissful heart he roams, To watch the syren lark, or mark the sun Surround with golden light the rainbow clouds.

Under the rainbow sky.

LANG, BORIS M. The rainbow way.

And he held up the paper-covered book, which had a rainbow cover.

A rainbow sweater, dirty and the worse for wear, clung loosely to his broad shoulders, and a red cotton handkerchief was knotted in sailor fashion about his throat.