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.

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.

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.

So they fought up and down the hall for an hour and more, neither striking the other a blow, though they strove their best to do so; for both were skillful at the fence; so nothing came of all their labor.

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

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.]

He said nothing, supposing that he understood; he but strove the harder to be good to her, to share with her some of that rare joy filling his own heart.

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.

" 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It was "the body" of as unselfish a sister-in-law as any man, high or low, ever had, who strove her utmost to propitiate, screen, and honour the self-seeking brother of her husband.

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

Men but now Have taken Cassandra, and I strove in vain.

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.

This expedient succeeded; the frosts were slowly chased out of the kindling materials; a sickly but gradually increasing flame strove through the kindling stuff and soon began to play among the billets of the oak, the only fuel that could be relied on for available heat.

" Much strove Meriadus, strove much in vain, Strove every courtly gallant of his train: All foil'd alike, he blazons far and wide A tournament, and there the emprize be tried!