The nurses fed him by spoonfuls and coaxed him just like you would little Honey; and Mr. Stoddardhe never was too busy to" the tears brimmed her eyes in the dusky cabin

River, River, swelling River, On you rush o'er rough and smooth Louder, faster, brawling, leaping Over rocks, by rose-banks sweeping, Like impetuous youth. River, River, brimming River, Broad and deep and still as Time, Seeming stillyet still in motion, Tending onward to the ocean, Just like mortal prime.

Presently when we had waxed very cheerful, and wine had risen to several young heads, the Governor called on us to brim our glasses.

A winding river flowed down through the midst of this valley, very quiet and smooth, and brimming its grassy banks, where were alder and sedge and long rows of pollard willows overreaching the water.

The joys of love and youth be mine, The cheerful glass, the ruby wine, The social feast, the merry friend, And brimming goblets without end.

You shall not dare to drink this cup, Yet fear this other I hold up Sings Love in Spain: One brimming deep with woman's breath This other moon-lit cup is Death; Drink one, drink twain.

Strength for the sunshine, strength for the gloom, Strength for the conflict, strength for the tomb; Let not the heart feel a craven fear Draw from the fountain deep and clear; Brim up Life's chalicepour in!

The fountains of feeling were opened and tears came welling up from their depths, until they brimmed the eyelids of all, and fell in showers, as when the cloud angel shakes his wings.

On the right the bright canary coloured charlock brimmed the field.

They made merry music and King, gone down to the stream to fill his coffee-pot, sang with it from a full, brimming heart.

Ay! boy, I feel the light-spring bubbling up; My lips are parch'd, and thirsting for the cup That now brims up my everlasting joy.

The high mountains on the west stood between them and the icy winds that swept down over the sea from the Labrador and the Arctic wastes; wood in abundance was at their doors, and the trout-stream that sang all day long under its bridges of snow and ice was always ready to brim their kettles out of its abundance.

The American turned away hurriedly, not to show the tears that unexpectedly brimmed his lids.

Then Dorothy made me known to those near her, to the pretty Carmichael twins, whose black eyes brimmed purest mischief; to Miss Haldimand, whose cold beauty had set the Canadas aflame; and to others of whom I have little recollection save their names.

We see their remains stillso tiny, yet so enduringin the Isles of Arran; upon a dozen rocky points all round the bleak edges of Connemara; in the wild mountain glens of the Burrenset often with an admirable selection of site, in some sloping dell with, perhaps, a stream slipping lightly by and hurrying to lose itself in the ground, always with a well or spring brimming freshly overan object still of reverence to the neighbouring peasants.

That day his life had brimmed overso he had put it at the time.

Erelong they reached that cottage in the dale: It was a rustic inn;the board was spread, The milk-maid followed with her brimming pail, And lustily the master carved the bread, 530 Kindly the housewife pressed, and they in comfort fed.

Yet the woods are green and dim, Yet the birds' deluding cry Echoes in the hollow sky, Yet the falling waters brim The clear pool which thou wast fain To paint thy lovely cheek upon, Beauteous one!

well, When his | clouds with | blessings | swell, And they | break a | brimming | shell On the | air; There the | shower | hath its | charms, Sweet and | welcome | to the | farms As they | listen | to its | voice, And re | -joice!" Rev. RALPH HOYT'S Poems:

In heat the landscape quivering lies, The cattle pant beneath the tree; Through parching air and purple skies The earth looks up, in vain, for thee; For theefor thee it looks in vain, Oh, gentle, gentle summer rain! Come thou, and brim the meadow streams, And soften all the hills with mist, Oh, falling dew!

" His expression of concern vanished; his glance wandered far east where the shades were already brimming the valleys.

It was a cataclysm of sound, drowning the faculties, stunning the senses, brimming up the void with awful tumult.

From their far right came the vast, brimming river, turbid, swift, silent, its billows every now and then rising and looking back as if they fled from implacable pursuers; sweeping by long, slumbering ranks of ships and steamboats; swinging in majestic breadth around the bend a mile or more below; and at the city's end, still beyond, gliding into mystic oblivion.

The tide was brimming the canals, rising over the water steps; the growing light gleamed coldly on the polished marbles of her palace, burnishing the rich gold fretwork of frieze and tracerybut not any face of any dear one responded to her hungry longing, watching for her in the deep spaces of the windows, in token of the love from which she was fleeing.

Only I rather hope she will never join the Roman Church; its banks are too narrow to hold the brimming river of the human spiriteven my Clare's, which does not, perhaps, brim very high, dear, simple child that she is.