He is a presence to be felt and known In darkness and in light, from herb and stone, 5 Spreading itself where'er that Power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own, Which wields the world with never wearied love, Sustains it from beneath, and kindles it above. 43.

That light whose smile kindles the universe, &c. This is again the 'One Spirit' of stanza 43.

And see, in stanza 42, the cognate expression, 'kindles it above.

Or is it the touching sight of so much happiness contrasted with what we know the home life to be? Sydney Smith says: "If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it;" and we know that virtue kindles at the touch of this joy.

"Virtue kindles at the touch of joy."

This last is not very educational, you say, but "virtue kindles at the touch of joy," and some lasting good must be born out of the rational happiness that surrounds even the youngest babies in the kindergarten.

Whatever most dignifies humanity, and makes our labors sweet, and causes us to forget our pains, and kindles us to lofty contemplations, and prompts us to heroic sacrifice, is the most real and the most useful.

80 She longs, she burns to clasp him in her arms, And looks, and sighs, and kindles at his charms.

THE TORCH KINDLES

Kossuth undoubtedly is a mighty Orator; but no one is better aware than he, that the cogency of his arguments is due to the atrocity of our common enemies, and the enthusiasm which he kindles to the preparations of the people's heart.

Accordingly he kindles another rebellion, and the heads of it assemble once more.

It is as certain as fire kindles and water wets that he will act according to the motive which has proved to be stronger for him.

It first kindles the bard and gives life to his lyre, Yet mellowed even now by that mildness of truth Which tempers, but chills not, the patriot fire; With an eloquencenot like those rills from a height, Which sparkle and foam, and in vapour are o'er; But a current that works out its way into light Through the filtering recesses of thought and of lore.

His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result.

Tender and agreeable sentiments steal into the soul, and are by the smallest opposition wound up into the most impetuous fury: Jealousy kindles with love; discord triumphs; and the gentlest of passions requires sacrifices of human blood to appease it.

A handsome female countenance, animated by the expression of the soul, is among the finest works of nature; the sight of it elevates the mind, and kindles the sparks of genius.

It kindles so many little heart-burnings and jealousies, that we rejoice it is not part of our duty.

Horror melts to pity, And pity kindles to adoring shower Of radiant tears!

Love is the peculiar oestrum of the poet: their love is ardent; but it kindles the senses only, not the imagination.

but were there one whose fires True genius kindles and fair fame inspires; Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, converse, and live with ease: Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne; View him with scornful, yet with jealous eyes, And hate, for arts that caused himself to rise; Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,

Ask some elderly man about the early triumphs of the Swedish Nightingale, and notice how he kindles.

Thou kindles" in the heart of the believer!

That Devotion to his Mistress kindles in his Mind a general Tenderness, which exerts it self towards every Object as well as his Fair-one.

When Lucifer no longer could advance His works on the false grounds of ignorance, 140 New arts he tries, and new designs he lays, Then his well-studied masterpiece he plays; Loyola, Luther, Calvin he inspires, And kindles with infernal flames their fires, Sends their forerunner (conscious of th'event)

All that litany of mockery and bitterness, which the Comic Spirit kindles afresh on the lips of each rising generation, only to quench it again on the lips of those who 'arrive,' flowed from him copiously.