She sat and sang to herself like a happy child, for her heart had fathomed the awful gloom which baffles angels and men; and she had learned that though hope comes to an end and light fails, and the feet of the ambassadors are stayed on the mountains, and the voice of the pleaders is silenced, and darkness swallows up the world, yet Love never fails.

He smiled the smile of a happy child.

He had known her a few years earlier a happy child playing at her mother's cottage door.

Sweet sleep, Angel mild, Hover o'er my happy child.

Fair scenes, erewhile, I taught, a happy child, The echoes of your rocks my carols wild: The spirit sought not then, in cherished sadness, 15 A cloudy substitute for failing gladness.

And they all sang, little and great, the good happy child, and the poor field flower that had lain there withered, thrown among the dust, in the rubbish of the removal-day, in the narrow, dark lane.

So after supper he stood attired, all in brown, a pale, happy child, ready for his first party.

She did not weep, or sob, or complain, but for the first time she realized the shadow that slavery had cast over her; and the change was instantaneous, from the mirthful, happy child, to the anxious, watchful slave girl.

The abbey-walls, that shroud my happy child, Appear within her hapless father's sight.

And as the Maid ministered unto me, I lay alway very restful, and harked to the low sound of the muttering of the fire-hole that did be in the bottom of the Gorge; and alway I did feel as an happy child that doth be clothed in love and guided in wisdom.

A happy child, and in a happy place.

None the less, No. 1295 is a charming thing, and the little Mother and her happy Child, whose big toe is being so reverently adored by the ancient mage, are very near real simple life.

" The color mounted to the cheeks of the happy child, and in those few moments of heartfelt joy he was amply repaid for the previous evening's toil.

The dainty meal and her motherly talk kept me a happy child until I heard the footsteps of the Lennox boys.

There were such joyous exclamations; such bursts of delight; such springing and jumping about, that Julia became infected with the general pleasure, and was a happy child herself.

"Who could think you would have guessed that my happy child has had no Fairy gift at all.

I, too, smiled upon him, and he became a happy child for a moment.

The parent and the happy child.

'You left me a happy child; you find me a woman, and a miserable one.' 'Good God, Venetia!

She laughed like a happy child.

Travelling on the Ice, by Dr. Walsh, explains "what put it into Captain Parry's head to go to the North Pole;" the Poet's Invitation, by Allan Cunningham, is sweet and simple; the Shamrock, by L.E.L., consists of some clever lines, accompanying a portrait of two fairy sisters and a little laughing brother The image of a happy child Doth link itself with all That natural loveliness, which least Reminds us of our fall.

V I heard the sky-lark warbling in the sky; And I bethought me of the playful hare: 30 Even such a happy Child of earth am I; Even as these blissful creatures do I fare;

" Out of the nursery came a laughing, happy child-woman.

I could fancy all these few words implieda wife, children, a happy home in manhood where he had been a happy child.

The happy child closes his weary eyes, and falls asleep on Angelo's shoulder.