Come to me soft-eyed sleep, With your ermine sandalled feet; Press the pain from my troubled brow With your kisses cool and sweet; Lull me with slumbrous song, Song of your clime, the blest, While on my heavy eyelids Your dewy fingers rest.

The world is asleep, and dreaming the silent dream of snow, But through the silence that seems like the silence of death, Under their shroud of ermine, the souls of the roses glow.

Towering over the oaks' dark green, And the lawn like emerald velvet, Fit for the feet of a queen; But round this brown-eyed princess, Did Love his ermine fold, Queen was she of a richer realm, She had dearer wealth than gold.

The effect was increased when, on days of judicial solemnity, a hundred and twenty magistrates were seated in judgment there, with their long white beards and scarlet robes, having at their head the presidents, attired in ermine mantles, above whom was a painting depicting the legislator Moses and the four evangelists.

She admitted reluctantly to herself, although she would never have confessed it openly, that in these latter days of the Republic the ermine was not likely to be offered to one so stern and masterful as her husband; while she also knew, and the knowledge held its compensation, that Giustinian Giustiniani could not be spared from the Councils of his government.

thou idiot!Art thou, who knowest me, so taken with ermine and tinsel?I, who have won the gold, am only fit to wear it.

If thou bearest me love and affiance, and for thy part wilt promise to make richer all the riches that are mine, on my part I will free thee from these sullen rags and array thee in the purple and ermine of a king.

Beulah was clad in royal ermine; not only clad, indeed, but nearly buried in it.

The curdee is a loose robe they throw off or put on according to the weather, being of a rich brocade (mine is green and gold), either lined with ermine or sables; the sleeves reach very little below the shoulders.

Here is a fellow that carries embroidered handkerchiefs upon his back to sell, as miserable a figure as you may suppose such a mean dealer, yet I'll assure you his wife scorns to wear anything less than cloth of gold; has her ermine furs, and a very handsome set of jewels for her head.

I do beleive thee chast As the straight palme; as absolute from spots As the immaculate Ermine, who does choose, When he is hunted by the frozen Russe, To meete the toyle

The guests are shown with their arms on the table in the most curious positions, and all the royal folk are wearing ermine.

It was now decided by the royal subjects that John should be still further restrained, as he had disgraced his nation and soiled his ermine.

The rumour that a deputation of ladies recently approached him with a proposal that they should be eligible for judicial office"Scarlet and ermine are so becoming"and that he put them off with the old joke about there being "enough old women on the Bench already" is, of course, apocryphal.

Snow, the ermine of the earth, is the crystallized moisture of the air, and is in subjection to unchanging laws.

The queen was dressed in silver brocade, with a mantle of the same furred with ermine; her hair was dishevelled, and she wore a chaplet upon her head set with jewels of inestimable value.

Harry Sinclair Drago (Will Ermine) (A); 8Jun61; R277223.

Prairie smoke, by Will Ermine, pseud.

Harry Sinclair Drago (Will Ermine) (A); 28Oct63; R324488.

Harry Sinclair Drago (Will Ermine) (A); 21Nov63; R326316. DRAKE, H. B. Captain of the Jehovah.

ERMINE, WILL, pseud.

Mink on weekdays, ermine on Sundays.

By Will Ermine, pseud. of Harry Sinclair Drago.

By Will Ermine, introd.

Mink on weekdays, ermine on Sundays.