Still the air breathed balmily about it; the season was in the "heart of June," and I could say with the poet, But them, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation!

If thou sleep not, mother mourneth, Singing as her wheel she turneth" Come, soft slumber, balmily!"

" Balmily and beautiful the evening fell, as Eric, not without toil, made his way along the road towards Ayrton, which was ten miles off.