The ocean laves the beach.

45 Thy love, CALLITRICHE, two Virgins share, Smit with thy starry eye and radiant hair; On the green margin sits the youth, and laves His floating train of tresses in the waves; Sees his fair features paint the streams that pass, 50 And bends for ever o'er the watery glass.

395 Round the dark roots, rent bark, and shatter'd boughs, From ocherous beds the swelling fountain flows; With streams austere its winding margin laves, And pours from vale to vale its dusky waves.

So bends tormented TANTALUS to drink, 420 While from his lips the refluent waters shrink; Again the rising stream his bosom laves, And Thirst consumes him 'mid circumfluent waves.

195 So, erst, an Angel o'er Bethesda's springs, Each morn descending, shook his dewy wings; And as his bright translucent form He laves, Salubrious powers enrich the troubled waves.

But spreads her silver arms upon the tides; 205 Slow as she sails, her ivory neck she laves, And shakes her golden tresses o'er the waves.

A Dolphin now, his scaly sides he laves, 450 And bears the sportive damsel on the waves; She strikes the cymbal as he moves along, And wondering Ocean listens to the song.

"Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset girded isle, Upon her shadowed streams; And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats, Like melody of spring-bird notes, When the blue halcyon gently laves His plumage in the flashing waves.

The lofty mast impends, the banner waves, 145 The ruffled surge th' incumbent vessel laves; With eager eye he views her destin'd foe Lead to her peaceful shores th' advent'rous prow; Trembling she knelt, with wild disorder'd air, And pour'd with frantic energy her pray'r 150 "Oh, ye avenging spirits of the deep!

TO THE VENUS OF MELOS O goddess of that Grecian isle Whose shores the blue Aegean laves, Whose cliffs repeat with answering smile Their features in its sun-kissed waves!

Ah! who is he by Cynthia's gleam Discern'd, the statue of distress; Weeping beside the willow'd stream That laves the woodland wilderness?

The grounds which on the right aspire, In dimness from the view retire: The left presents a place of graves, Whose wall the silent water laves.

o'er Delphi's steep, Isles that crown the Ægean deep, Fields that cool Ilissus laves, Or where Meander's amber waves In lingering labyrinths creep, I How do your tuneful echoes languish, Mute but to the voice of Anguish?

e mon Si te laves en l'aygua clara.

Ye rocky heightsye violet-meads appearing Once fairer to my gaze than poet's dream Now all your golden light to gloom is veering, And every floweret laves in Lethe's stream.

Away he sailsthe foaming seas as Corsair now he laves, Dauntlessheroicdaring winds, and man-entombing waves, To visit other lands afar,to combat chiefs of fame; In battle-field to spread around the dread of Norway's name.

SEE Bray, William C. LAVES, WALTER H. C. The Middle West looks at the war, by Walter H. C. Laves & Francis C. Wilcox.

SEE Bray, William C. LAVES, WALTER H. C. The Middle West looks at the war, by Walter H. C. Laves & Francis C. Wilcox.

Walter H. C. Laves (A); 30Oct67; R420660.

LAVES, WALTER HERMAN CARL, ed.

The foundations of a more stable world order, by Ferdinand Shevill, Jacob Viner, Charles C. Colby, Quincy Wright, J. Fred Rippy & Walter H. C. Laves.

Walter Herman Carl Laves (A); 25Jul68; R440034.

Walter Herman Carl Laves (A); 7Jul69; R465014.

SEE LAVES, WALTER HERMAN CARL, ed.

From July to October, at any moment, the sapphire skies may turn black with thunder-clouds; the Eden-like landscapes turned into scenes of ruin and desolation; the rippling ocean that lovingly laves their shores becomes a roaring monster trying to swallow them.