If love but learned how soon life treads its measure, How short and swift its hours when all is told, Each kiss and tender word 'twould count and treasure, As misers count their gold.

All the relations of the Froments, all their friends, all the district, had come to pay a tribute of emotion at so sudden and swift a death.

How swift the transition from bad to good!

For the Past is ever one's master, And Memory mocks at space, And Trouble travels with us, However swift our pace;

" "You are then a cruiser of some service, in the brigantineno doubt you have trod many distant shores, belonging to so swift a craft.

And, at the word, High-bounding, wings his airy flight So swift his form eludes the sight; Nor aught is seen his course to mark, Save when athwart the region

The goat he welcomes with an air, And seats him in his wooden chair: 30 Mouth, nose, and cheek the lather hides: Light, smooth, and swift the razor glides.

a shepherd saith; Sing, sweet Mary, "The Spring is come to Nazareth And swift the Summer hurrieth.

Light was his weight and swift his leap, Now would he softly tread, now creep, For treacherous was the mud, and deep From stone to weed, from weed to plank, Leaving a hole where'er he sank; With panting breath and sore taxed strength The solid earth he felt at length.

When she was in the water, and though she was so big, it amazed me to see with what dexterity, and how swift my man Friday would manage her, turn her, and paddle her along.

But as they did not fall upon us immediately, we proceeded on our journey in as swift a manner as the roads would permit our horses, which was only a large trot.

Ah, swift the blissful moments flew, And when at last I said adieu (Perhaps you think me bold), but I I stole a kiss.

Ah sadly swift the news has flown To Zaida in the silent town; Speechless she sat, while every thought Fresh sorrow to her bosom brought; Then flowed her tears in larger flood, Than from his wounds the tide of blood.

Was ever so strange a transformation, so swift an oblivion of old enmities and rancors, so rapid a growth of union and concord out of hatred and strife!"

So urgent was the mien and attitude of Fame, and so swift the pose of the horses, that you had sworn that the chariot was instantly upon you, and that its dust already veiled the faces of the Kings.

Not till this day, thou saw'st this fatal fair; Did ever passion make so swift a progress?

I awake; How swift the rush of memory's turning tide, Whose ruthless waves the will's frail barriers break, And flood the cells where consciousness would hide!

So near, so dear; and ah, so swift the stream; Even now perhaps it were not yet too late.

"Long and swift our stride,more fleet Than the deer of the mountain our coursers' feet!

Neither was as swift a swimmer as Jack, and for that reason, their progress through the water had been considerably slower.

A feeble taper dimly burn'd, As swift her task she plied, And oft her anxious gaze was turn'd Where, nestled by her side, On a low pallet, sleeping lay A darling, cherub boy, With curling hair and azure eyes, His mother's only joy.

How swift the tide Of memory glideth o'er the past; Those sunny hours so quickly sped, Perchance a few with clouds o'ercast.

And swift the act and short the ways of gods who are eager to an end.

And swift the years like arrows fly No more with girls content to play, Fast in its prison-walls of earth, Awaits the mold of bakèd clay.

But the mention of Cornificia's name wrought just as swift a change in him as had the name of Lucius Severus.