be gold the tempting bane, "The curse that desolates thy hostile plain; "May pleasure tinge with venom'd drops the bowl, 180 "And luxury unnerve the sick'ning soul.

The Temple shakes, the sounding gates unfold, Wide vaults appear, and roofs of fretted gold, Raised on a thousand pillars wreathed around With laurel-foliage and with eagles crowned; Of bright transparent beryl were the walls, The friezes gold, and gold the capitals: As heaven with stars, the roof with jewels glows, And ever-living lamps depend in rows.

When looked at closely, how truly gold their color!

and gold dust in piles.

Shall gold a father's heart entice, Blood to redeem beyond all price?

That through the eastern windows pour And, with a warmth my nature craves, Transmute to gold the polished floor!

Now that life would rest again Soft she lies in gold and brown, Brown the fields and gold the grain, Brown the little pools of rain, Gold the leaves that falter down To brown pavements in the town.

The following lines are from the pen of Calder Campbell: "But not by burne in wood or dale Grows anything so fair As the palmy crest of emerald pale Of the lady fern when the sunbeams turn To gold her delicate hair.

But other joys can gold impart, Far other wishes warm my heart Ne'er may I strive to swell the heap, Till want and woe have ceas'd to weep.

Little Girls Are Best Little girls are mighty nice, Take 'em any way they come; They are always worth their price; Life without 'em would be glum; Run earth's lists of treasures through, Pile 'em high until they fall, Gold an' costly jewels, too Little girls are best of all.

well might one say, 'O time than gold more precious, more a load than lead to fools.'

" "What more?" "Anything ye will, messire: for since I am the want universal and gold the universal need, needs must want need!

To purchase Heaven, has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour?

It was further resolved that whatever moneys of silver or gold the public treasury had taken from his ancestral estate should be restored.

Everything in the room had been among her father's wedding presents to herselfthe rosewood furniture, the lace curtains, the rare engravings, the carpet that was at once perfect to the tread and to the eye, the ornaments everywhere: everything excepting the narrow gilt frame over the dressing bureau, enclosing on a gray ground, painted in black, crimson, and gold the words: "I HAVE SEEN THY TEARS."

I've seen cinnamon black bears an' I've seen cinnamon grizzlies, an' I've seen browns an' golds an' almost-yellows of both kinds.