" "Ye-es, I am," J.W. answered, "and then, again, I'm not.

Yet strove I hard; until at length I came Where Lethe flow'd before me, faint and dim; Ye gods!

So now, speak word to us master, look'ee!" "Ye men!"

Then be your judgment generous as his plan; Ye sons of freedom!

Ye stars are but the shining dust Of my divine abode, The pavement of those heavenly courts Where I shall reign with God.

"Ye maun say a worse sweer, Wattie.

Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes, Whom pleasure keeps too busy to be wise; Whom joys with soft varieties invite, By day the frolick, and the dance by night; Who frown with vanity, who smile with art, And ask the latest fashion of the heart; What care, what rules, your heedless charms shall save, Each nymph your rival, and each youth your slave?

"Through sorrow's night, and danger's path, Amid the deepening gloom, Ye children of a heavenly king Are marching to the tomb.

YE SPIRITS OF THE FREE.

36.Whether was formerly used as an interrogative pronoun, in which sense it always referred to one of two things; as, "Ye fools and blind!

"Ye daughters of Rabbah, gird ye with sackcloth.

44-46, "BOTH THY BONDMEN, &c., SHALL BE OF THE HEATHEN," "OF THEM SHALL YE BUY," "THEY SHALL BE YOUR BONDMEN FOREVER," "YE SHALL TAKE THEM AS AN INHERITANCE," &c. EXAMINATION OF LEV.

"Ye wad na hae me pardon yon traitor?" "Most assuredly not, Sire," De Gondomar rejoined.

Ye forests, bend, ye harvests, wave to Him; Breathe your still song into the reaper's heart, As home he goes beneath the joyous moon.

Ye mun come up wi' us, lassie, and point to the very spot.'

Ye mariners of England, That guard our native seas, Whose flag has braved a thousand years The battle and the breeze!

Herrick's good advice, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye mayOld Time is still a- flying," might be adapted, she thinks, to sketchers in mountainous regions, and she speaks from bitter experience when she suggests: "Paint in your snow-peaks while you may, If clouds are quickly flying, For those heights now in bright display May soon in mist be lying.

An' help me in keepin' the hame for a spell In the extry hours that ye've got to yoursel', Sae, while I'm scrubbin' the floor," she said, "Ye micht be pittin' the bairns tae bed.

It has some resemblance to the more simple and touching phrase in the Elegy by Moschus (p. 65): 'Ye flowers, now in sad clusters breathe yourselves away.' +Stanza 17+, 1. 1.

Ye women, bear the pine half burned To the chamber back; and let your drownèd eyes Answer the music of these bridal cries!

' 'Ye canna get peace in this,' said Willie, with a glance round the tumultuous billet.

Ye servants of our line of kings, Remember him from whom it springs. Remember him from whom it springs; Let this give to your virtue wings.

Ye lightnings, the dread arrows of the clouds!

Ye locusts, wingèd tribes, Your wings in flight resound; Well your descendants may In endless lines be found!

whom desastrous chaunce, 505 Hath farre exiled from your ladies grace, To mourne in sorrow and sad sufferauncc, When ye doe heare me in that desert place Lamenting loud my Daphnes elegie, Helpe me to waile my miserable case, 510 And when life parts vouchsafe to close mine eye.