The Greater Pilgrimage to Mecca, comprising the sevenfold circuit of the Kaaba and the kissing of the sacred Black Stone, and culminating in a procession to the holy places of Mina and Arafat, could only be undertaken in Dzul-Higg, corresponding in the time of Mahomet to our March.

In "Das Märchen von dem Rhein und dem Müller Radlauf," Loreley is portrayed in a sevenfold capacity, as it were: seven archways lead to seven doors that open onto seven stairways that lead to a large hall in which Frau Lureley sits on a sevenfold throne with seven crowns upon her head and her seven daughters around her.

" The principles that have generally been held to govern the use of language appear to him mere arbitrary rules, invented by the "sevenfold censorship" and the Spanish Inquisition, for the purpose of preventing the free communication of ideas.

Child of the gods, today, O fugitive one, I will pursue thee on the field of battle, Seize thee, tear low thy horn of plenty, pour Wholly thy radiant blessings round my feet, Though sevenfold chains of iron bind thee fast To the triumphant chariot of the Swede!

His parents, wondering at this strange event, Took counsel of the soothsayers in this; Who told them that these sevenfold eagles' flight Forefigured his seven times consulship: And we ourselves (except bewitch'd with pride) Have seen him six times in the capitol, Accompanied with rods and axes too.

Plenteous of grace, descend from high, Rich in thy sevenfold energy!

* CONCERNING THE HOLY SPIRIT "Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, And lighten with celestial fire; Thou the Anointing Spirit art, Who dost Thy sevenfold gifts impart.

They take him down at Vesper-tide; In grave at Compline lay, Who thenceforth bids His Church observe The sevenfold hours alway.

It is these which constitute the science and the philosophy of Freemasonry, and it is these alone which will return the student who devotes himself to the task, a sevenfold reward for his labor.

Hither and thither from the sevenfold road Some cart or waggon crosses, which divides The close-wedged audience; but, as when the tides To ploughing ships give way, the ship being past, They re-unite, so these unite as fast.

And, under covert of his sevenfold shield, Thou send'st thy shafts to scour the distant field.

Dropping our sevenfold virtues down, As priceless jewels in the crown Of Christ, our new-born King.

Government is not a royal mystery, to be shut off, like old Deiokes, by a sevenfold wall from the ordinary business of life.

To Lorenzo, however, was reserved the distinction of placing upon that mighty column its magnificent copestone, and he adorned it with the sevenfold balls of his escutcheon, whilst on the summit he held unfurled the great Red Cross Oriflamme of Florence.

PAINTING And as the magic rainbow in the sky Conjures its colors from the gorgeous sun, So will we, each for all, and all as one, With mystic sevenfold wealth of pageantry, Weave for thee, Lady, life's great tapestry.