Why, Jackson would turn in his grave if a son of John Sprague were not the first to take up arms when the Union that he loved, as he loved his life, was in peril!" Mrs. Sprague listened with woe-begone perplexity to these sounding periods, conscious only that her darling, her adored scapegrace, had suddenly turned serious, and was using the weapons she had so often employed to justify his conduct.

You and I know that there's some sort of madman in command, a man that quotes the Bible and speaks English; but madman or not, he's a great general, and woe betide Virginia if he gets among the manors.

One woe doth tread upon another's heel, So fast they follow.

Thy soothing breast Did balm to every woe afford; And now no more by thee caress'd, The widow'd world bewails her Lord.

The legions of Túrán, with dread surprise, Saw o'er the plain successive myriads rise; And showed them to Sohráb; he, mounting high The fort, surveyed them with a fearless eye; To Húmán, who, with withering terror pale, Had marked their progress through the distant vale, He pointed out the sight, and ardent said: "Dispel these woe-fraught broodings from thy head, I wage the war, Afrásiyáb!

And, as you drink, the mystic draught Shall joy or woe impart; 'T will give you pleasant happiness, Or sorrow's painful smart.

Oh! GOD OF MERCY! bid her woes subside, And be to her a friend, who hath no friend beside.

And the spirit-face, with its woe divine, Came back in the hour of sighs; As to men who have lost their aim, and pine, Old faces of childhood rise: He wept for her pleading voice, and the shine Of her solitary eyes.

" And at the word, the lad grew calm again, And silent stood with still and stony stare, Until his heart broke out in woe afresh (A guileless child, not knowing strong control),

From all the universe sad notes repeat With doleful strains of woe transcendent, sweet; Hush! hear the song!

Their former woe vanishes and they embrace Krishna and Balarama fondly.

4 But thou hast told the troubled soul, Who does her sins lament, The timely tribute of her tears Shall endless woe prevent.

Take, for example, the lines from Eglantine's lament: Since that the gods will not my woe redresse, Since men are altogether pittilesse, Ye silent ghosts unto my plaints give eare; Give ear, I say, ye ghosts, if ghosts can heare, And listen to my plaints that doe excell The dol'rous tune of ravish'd Philomel.

her joys; and if the dark behest Of woe resistless, and avoidless care, Hath, not gone forth, oh!

" "Let this old woe step on the stage again, Act itself o'er anew for men to judge; Not by the very sense and sight indeed, Which take at best imperfect cognizance.

Bellizarius, woe thy wife that she would love me, And thou shalt live.

As after wolf wolf presses, leaping through the snow-glades, So woe on woe throngs surging up.

Whatever Fate to Man may bring, Whatever weal or woe befall, That metal tongue shall backward ring

For pity only on fresh objects stays, But with the tedious sight of woes decays.

Must mine eyes, this woe discerning, Must they so far-sighted be!