what a weary race my feet have run, Since first I trod thy banks with alders crowned, And thought my way was all through fairy ground, Beneath thy azure sky and golden sun, Where first my Muse to lisp her notes begun!

For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.

She was brought to him, a bright, cheerful little thing, just beginning to lisp unintelligible words.

The rash earth-born warrior knew not that he who put his lance in rest against the immortals had but a short lease of life to live, and that his bairns would never run to lisp their sire's return, nor climb his knees the envied kiss to share.

Go, sir, and see that you lisp not a syllable of this to any one.

for now again the scene is changed; A group before that rustic altar ranged, With bended knee the throne of grace implore, On infant heads its showers of love to pour; That infant tongues may lisp the praise of God, To guide their feet in paths by Jesus trod.

The child who learns to lisp his prayers at his mother's knee is started aright.

[Footnote 26: Bambalio is derived from the Greek word [Greek: bambala] to lisp.]

When she was five, six year old, she lisp some,call me Thophy; that make her kin' o' 'shamed, perhaps: after she grow up, she never lisp, but she kin' o' got the way o' not talkin' much.

When she was five, six year old, she lisp some,call me Thophy; that make her kin' o' 'shamed, perhaps: after she grow up, she never lisp, but she kin' o' got the way o' not talkin' much.

Hear how their bantling has already learned to lisp sedition.

He adjusted his unseeing eye-glass in this wise and lisped to the clerk, because it's "Hinglish, you know," to lisp: "Thir, thir, will you have the kindness to fuhnish me with thome papah and thome envelopehs!"

In her thou daily didst rejoice, She caught her language from thy voice; When she had learned to lisp thy name, New love with those sweet accents came.

She looks like a young, fluffy chicken, and has a lisp and an infantile voice, and wears numbers of trinkets, and her name, "Babykins," spelled in a brooch of diamonds.

A third, who begins his existence in Turkey, is carried early to the mosque; taught to lisp with profound reverence the name of Mohammed; habituated to repeat the prayers and sentences of the Koran as the means of eternal life; and induced, in a manner irresistible, to complete his title to Paradise by a pilgrimage to Mecca.

She very soon got over her childish lisp, and even before she was four years old she spoke with perfect distinctness.

The professor's first care was to correct any tendency to lisp, which he did by temporarily substituting the syllables te, de, over and over again, for the faulty R. This substitution brought the organ back to the requisite position for the vibration of the R. This process is now in common use; but I cannot say whether it was employed before Delsarte's day.

"Yet," he continued, "to doubt it you must be making some theory of your own; what is it, please?" He spoke with a slight lisp.

Then suddenly the children gathered about a single portrait of remarkable rich colouring, and little Lady Margaret came running and saying with a lisp, "Come, see, Father; 'tis the prettiest picture here, and there are no flowers 'neath it.

And now the Christmas holiday being more than half over, Mr. Augustus Mortimer desired that his grandson might come and spend a few days with him, for Valentine had told him how enchanted John was with the boy's progress, but that he was mortified almost past bearing by his lisp.

Cray accordingly did appear, and after dinner the old man began to put before his grandson the advantage it would be to him if he could cure himself, of his lisp.

"Valentine has been reminding me that he used to lisp horribly when a child, but he entirely cured himself before he was your age.

" "And it is agreed that Johnnie could cure himself of his lisp if he chose, and if you would continually remind him of it?"

Neither of them will lisp a word about this handsome Isabella.

But lisp not a word of my embarrassments for your life.