Tears doubled every bead; but, evermore, Through pain and sorrow, yearn'd her thirsting soul For that far Golden Water in the East, Whence one bright drop would fill her fountain full, With glistening jets still rising in the midst.

The grafted trees "behold with wonder" strange leaves and fruits growing from their stems, transplanted shoots "put off their wild-wood instincts," the thirsting plant "lifts up its head" in gratitude when watered.

This most original mixture, which we christened "florium," was excellent, more thirst-quenching than rum, more sustaining to the spirit than florio.

" KNOX LITTLE BORN IN 1839 THIRST SATISFIED [Footnote 1: Reprinted by permission of Hodder & Stoughton, London.]

He poured out a glassful and drank, and the thought cameapart from his listening to Framtreeif only other agonies could be eased with the swift directness of his thirst-torture that moment.

"I may not shelter beneath your roof, lady, Nor in this wood's green shadow seek repose, Nor will your apples quench the thirst A homesick wanderer knows.

Plant in it all kinds of flowers and fruits; make good ponds in it for bathing; make it grand and imposing in every way, so that men shall look to it with thirsting desire; make its gates strong and sure; and when any one enters, instantly seize him and punish him as a sinner, not allowing him to get out.

Or as a child that sobs itself to sleep, Wearied with labour which the grown call play, Waking in smiles as soon as morn doth peep, Springs up to labour all the joyous day, Shall we lie down, weary; and sleep, until Our souls be cleansed by long and dreamless rest; Till of repose we drink our thirsting fill, And wake all peaceful, smiling, pure, and blest?

Thus at first The infant takes not kindly to the breast, But before long, its eager thirst Is fain to slake with hearty zest: Thus at the breasts of wisdom day by day With keener relish you'll your thirst allay.

the awful fight with death; The hours to hang and die; The thirsting gasp for common breath, That passes heedless by!"

The whole scenethe silent pool at my feet, the rich, well-timbered valley, with its marked contrast to the cold hills that overlook itreminded me forcibly of Whyte-Melville's lines at the conclusion of the most impressive poem he ever wrote: "The Fairies' Spring": "And sweet to the thirsting lips of men Is the spring of tears in the fairies' glen.

"Lucy! Lucy!" cried Saul, and he soon overtook me,"Lucy, I sought you as the thirsting man seeks water on the desert; and I have sought to bless you, almost as Hagar blessed the Angel,almost as the devout soul blesses God, when it finds a spring that He has made to rise out of the sands.

But though he got certainties there, they must have been, one judges, certainties too arid for his thirsting mind.

All I heard were the words of the officer: "You speak German, eh?" At a flash this dead throng became an infuriated blood-thirsting mob.

I am reminded of the thirsting mule, which has, in some countries, to strike with his hoof among the spines of the cactus, and drink, with lamed foot and bleeding lips, the few drops of milk which ooze from the broken thorns.

The fire is lighted in its central shrine, and gradually the juices which the broad leaves of the Great Vegetable had sucked up from an acre and curdled into a drachm are diffused through its thirsting pores.

In the lyric, The Cloud, it is the animating spirit of the Cloud itself that sings the song: "I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid

We need never expect words and metre to do more than they do here: they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chewed bitter ashes, which the offended taste With spattering noise rejected: oft they assayed, Hunger and thirst constraining; drugged as oft, With hatefullest disrelish writhed their jaws, With soot and cinders filled; or more than they do here:

" "It is convenient, for health and sobriety, to drink no more than natural thirst requires; and he that eats not salt meats, nor drinks strong drink, will seldom thirst between meals.