It seemed to me that my eyes were never open wider than when I threw myself down upon the ground by the side of Jacob, striving my best to cross over into Dreamland.

When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

While life is thine, consent not, Háfiz, That it should speed ignobly by; But strive thou to attain the object Of thy existence ere thou die.

Long did he strive the obdurate foe to gain By proffered grace, but long he strove in vain; Till fired at length, he thinks it vain to spare His rising wrath, and gives a loose to war.

Vainly strives the soul to mingle With a being of our kind: Vainly hearts with hearts are twined: For the deepest still is single.

And that in this, its latest form My old-time spirit once more strives, As it has fought through many a storm In past, forgotten lives.

After this line the editions of 1815-1832 have the following couplet: While strives a secret Power to hush the crowd, Pain's wild rebellious burst proclaims her rights aloud, and this is followed by lines 545-6 of the final text.]

The poles unite, the zones agree, The tongues of striving cease; As on the Sea of Galilee, The Christ is whispering, "Peace!" THE BIRDS OF THE GARDEN AND ORCHARD.

Unnamed, methinks, distinguish'd I had been From other shades, by this eternal green, About whose wreaths the vulgar poets strive, And with a touch their wither'd bays revive.

Living amidst so much sin and misery, this frail lad determined to strive his hardest to assist others.

" Sanpeur, Alone of all the men who came within Her circle, varied not at smiles or frowns, And when he would not humour passing mood, And when she felt within her wayward heart The silent protest of his calm reserve, Although a longing she had never known Awoke in her,her pride, in arms, cried truce To striving spirit, and she laughed the more.

But then the poor mind lay itself all dim, And ruffled with the outer restlessness Of striving death and life.

Should fell disease assail her now, Place his pale signet on her brow, And chill her heart with fear; No more he'd stand beside her bed, Bathe her parched lips, and aching head, And strive her mind to cheer.

And for me, I confess, even the sins of these three other striving empires take on, in comparison, something that is sorrowful and dignified: and I feel they do not deserve that this little Lutheran lounger should patronise all that is evil in them, while ignoring all that is good.

After striving through many pages to put Lucien, whom you would have loved, whom I would have loved, that divine representation of all that is young and desirable in man, before the reader, Balzac puts these words in his mouth in reply to an impatient question by Vautrin, who asks him what he wants, what he is sighing for, "D'être célèbre et d'être aimé,"these are soul-waking words, these are Shakespeare words.

His successors would carry his work to higher attainments, but his personal part was done, and it was with a sense of finality that almost brought peace to his perpetually striving nature that he prepared for his last witness to the glory and unity of Allah, the performance of the Greater and Farewell Pilgrimage.

This way of going to work would perhaps be more striking if it were not common to all our workers here; a very demon of unrest seems to stir them to effort and there is now not a single man who is not striving his utmost to get good results in his own particular department.

But when a man's ambition is limited to mere successwhen fame and a flash for himself are all he cares for, and there is no truer, grander motive for his sustaining the position he has climbed towhen, in short, it is his own glory, not mankind's good, he has ever striven forwoe, woe, woe when the hour of success is come!

And fondly strives her struggling friend to save.

1110 Long must his patience strive with fortune's rage, And long-opposing gods themselves engage; Must see his country flame, his friends destroy'd, Before the promised empire be enjoy'd.

Touching the unproven there is silence, and none knoweth them: yea and even from them that strive Fortune hideth herself until they come unto the perfect end; for she giveth of this and of that.

There is, there is one blessed thought surviving; The heart's sure fulcrum in the saddest strait An overture to this unequal striving A hope, a home, a last and blest arriving!

In addition to the opposition of open enemies and unprincipled pirates, Morse and Kendall were sometimes hampered by the unjust suspicions of some of those whose interests they were striving to safeguard.

2. O restless and striving king, when the time of thy death shall come, thy subjects shall be destroyed and driven forth; they shall sink into dark oblivion.

Upon a mountain's dizzy height, Ambition's temple gleams with light: Proud forms are moving fair within, And bid us strive that light to win.