On the 9th of May, Minoók went to bed in winter, and woke to find the snow almost gone under the last nineteen hours of hot, unwinking sunshine, and the first geese winging their way up the valleysight to stir men's hearts.

The spring days now are lengthening out their light; The plants and trees are dressed in living green; The orioles resting sing, or wing their flight; Our wives amid the southern-wood are seen, Which white they bring, to feed their silkworms keen.

He knew that Alec Naylor did not believe a word of what he was saying or suggesting; but yet Alec could not pass his guard, nor wing a shaft between the joints of his harness.

THE MECHANISM WHICH ENABLES BIRDS to wing their course through the air, is both singular and instructive.

Well might I in those days so fortunate, What time the sun lightened my path above, Have soared from earth to heaven, raised by her love Who winged my labouring soul and sweetened fate.

But before you wing your bird you must flush him.

CHAPTER XXII TWO WINGED MYSTERIES NighthawkWhip-poor-will.

To wing his sure resistless dart, Where all its force is known; And rule the undivided heart Despotic, and alone.

Once more, when she saw the first archer, she warned the Birds that he was their deadly enemy, who would wing his arrows with their own feathers and shoot them.

Up into the puffy air winged six aeroplanes.

Cure then, thou mighty winged God, This raging Fever in my Blood.

Again and again he had thus hit his target in practice and six times he had winged his man by such agile promptness.

I grant, you were at Athens graced, And on Minerva's helm were placed; But every bird that wings the sky, Except an owl, can tell you why.

She, crowned with olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere, His ready harbinger, With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing; And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.

Terror winged my feet.

The girl did not weep; dry-eyed she winged a perfectly sincere prayer toward incorruptible saints.

Dearest, shall I catch thee wanton fawns, or flies Whose woven wings the summer dyes Of many colours?

Bird of the South, my Rondinello Under thy wing my heart hath lain

All along the dark chimneys of the brain, clinging like myriads of swallows deep-buried and slumbrous in quiet and in soot, are the countless thoughts which lately winged the wide heaven of conscious day.

Instead of winging its way heavenward in vigorous flight, it crawls along the earth, like an eagle whose wings have been broken.

I forget it in thy singing; Hearing thee, I faint no more,' "While he spoke the bird went winging Higher still, and soared away; 'Cruel songster!' cried the pilgrim, 'Cruel songster not to stay!' "Was the songster cruel?

Her thoughts winged on to other thingsto the little poor homes where her wistful children dwelt, to the great scheme for their care and oversight which daily came nearer to realization.

When gladness wings my favour'd hour, Thy love my thoughts shall fill: Resign'd, when storms of sorrow lower,

Lick 'em with your fists or a pin, if you can; and if you do shoot, for God's sake just wing 'em a little.

Before the bull she pictur'd winged Love, With his yong brother Sport, light fluttering 290 Upon the waves, as each had been a dove; The one his bowe and shafts, the other spring* A burning teade** about his head did move, As in their syres new love both triumphing; And manie Nymphes about them flocking round,