The angels carolled loud their song of peace; The cursed oracles were stricken dumb

Especially the birds, with their gay plumage and varied melodies, inspired delight; every traveller expressed his pleasure in listening to the mocking-bird, which carolled a thousand several tunes, imitating and excelling the notes of all its rivals.

Soon she heard the Indian dialect vociferated in loud voices, while occasionally a loud savage yell rang fearfully through the air, blending a wild chorus with the strains of the warbling birds, as they carolled their vesper hymns upon the neighboring branches, before retiring to their nests.

"They have ordained for us a time to sing, A time to love, a time wherein to tire Of all spent songs and kisses; caroling Such elegies as buried dreams require, Love now departs, and leaves us shivering Beside the embers of a burned-out fire.

When the book was sent to Lamb he remarked (in December, 1796) on "the odd coincidence of two young men, in one age, carolling their grandmothers....

The air was filled with the sweet music of the birds that carolled their evening lay, and seemed pouring forth a sweet song of gratitude to Heaven, for that delightful day.

"I'm wild an' woolly an' full o' fleas I'm hard to curry below the knees" Thus he carolled loudly two lines of the justly popular song.

It was shortly after John O'Sheehan had been sentenced for two years for caroling another seditious lyric.

But the face in that instant of dream was the face of Miss Katharine Lansdale, and coupled with the vision was a prescience that in some later life I should again look back and see myself as now, a grown but awkward boy, still holding aloofstill adoring from some remote background while other and bolder gallants captured trophies and lightly carolled their serenades.

Darkness passes, and the birds are carolling the sun, flowers and trees are pranked with aerial jewellery, the fragrance of the warm earth flows in your veins, your eyes are fain of the light above and your heart of the light within.

And we carol forth glad tidings Of our holy Saviour's birth.

A glory of sun dappled their way with dancing shadows, flowers were a-bloom in bank and hedgerow, and birds carolled blithe in the fragrant air, what time Sir Benedict rode beside Beltane, his ponderous casque a-swing at saddle-bow; and oft he turned his grizzled head to view my thoughtful Beltane as one might look upon a son, new-found.

A robin had hopped upon the window-sill just outside the patched and rusty screen and was joyfully caroling to her his views of life.

Pringle was in high feather; he caroled blithesome as he rode: "So those three little owls flew back up in the barn Inky, dinky, doodum, day!

There was a laugh lodged in every dimple of her sunny face, and her busy little tongue was all the day long carolling some happy ditty.