<Song, ballad, ditty, lullaby, hymn, anthem, dirge, chant, paean, lay, carol, lilt>.

"Please stop that dirge and play something cheerful!"

Let's sing a dirge for Saint Hugh's soul, And drown it merrily.

Jerusalem was spared for a while; and in the mean time Jehoiakim died, and so intensely was he hated and despised that no dirge was sung over his remains, while his dishonored body was thrown outside the walls of his capital like that of a dead ass, as Jeremiah had foretold.

Shortly after ten, at a signal from the chief marshal, the solemn cortége moved off to the music of a mournful dirge.

Neither in death was he of songs forsaken, for at his funeral pyre and beside his tomb stood the Helikonian maiden-choir, and poured thereon a dirge of many melodies.

Personally I should prefer to have the last sad dirge sung over me by a quail on toast, or maybe a Welsh rabbit.

The wind sighed over us amongst the wet shrouds, with a note so mournful, that there could not have been a more appropriate dirge.

* * DIRGE OF WALLACE.

Ere the loud matin bell was rung, That a trumpet of death on an English tower Had the dirge of her champion sung!

Ganfride, who couldst so well in rhyme complain The death of Richard with an arrow slain, Why had not I thy muse, or thou my heart, To sing this heavy dirge with equal art?

I hear the midnight bell, Pealing forth its funeral knell; Now its tones sound loud and clear Now low and dirge-like, strike the ear, Solemn and slow, they seem to fall, Upon the listening ear of all.

No eyes were allotted this Swimmer, but in blindness, with ceaseless jeers, he battles till time be done with, and the love-songs of earth be sung, and the very last dirge be sung, and a baffled and outworn sea begrudgingly own Oriander alone may mock at the might of its ire.

He hears, as darkness veils his eyes, Near, in hoarse croak, their dirge-like cries.

From the steeple Tolls the bell, Deep and heavy, The death-knell, Guiding with dirge-notesolemn, sad, and slow, To the last home earth's weary wanderers know.

"Weep, O ye maidens, on mountain and valley, Lift the dirge for the sons of the brave; We have fired our last bullet, have made our last rally, And Caucasus gives us a grave.

It is difficult to select an entire scene for quotation, so that we take a specimen from Arixina: CHORUS OF BARDS. DIRGE.

Shout, and fill the hirlass horn, Round the dirge-feast quaff till morn; Songs and joy sound o'er the heath, For he died the warrior's death!

DIRGE OF DEATH.

Our natives occasionally gave us a song, or, rather, dirge, in which they all joined chorus.

Thy silence is a sadder thing Than any dirge I sing!"

Foreman was in a particular jolly mood the next morning, for he had spent the night bidding against Pierrepont Morgan at an auction sale of old masters; but he listened patiently while Sowers called off the figures in a sort of dirge-like singsong, and until he had wailed out his final note of despair, a bass-drum crash, which he thought would bring Foreman to a realizing sense of their loss, so to speak.

The first describes the ravages of the plague at Avignon; the second mourns over the death of poetry in the person of Laura, who fell a victim on April 6, 1348; the third is a dirge sung by the shepherdesses over her grave.

The sea lazily plashed against the sunken turrets of the walls which descended to the water, a flock of bustards and of geese whizzed through the fog, and flew with a complaining cry above the ramparts; all was dark and melancholyeven the dull and tiresome braying of the asses laden with faggots for the market, sounded like a dirge over the fine weather.

One wintry day, many years after he had taken up his abode on the rocky height, Roland missed the graceful form he loved, and heard, instead of the usual psalm, a dirge for the dead.