A skylark hung In mid-air flutt'ring, and sung A lullaby that grew more sweet Amid the stillness, in the heat And splendour of the sun: the lisp Of faint wind in the herbage crisp Went past them; and around the bare And foam-striped sand-banks gleaming fair, The faintly-panting waves were cast By the wan deep fatigued and vast.

Lines like the following from the chorus, The Youth of the Year, show the quality for which his verse is most famous: "When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

What, is that you, Thomas? THOMAS (with the fashionable lisp of the fifties, always substituting 'th' for 's').

Not a lisp of such a ruin had been heard by me previously.

" But to this end he must be sure that not a lisp of the rise would be published in the morning papers, and he must see Captain Grant and close his bargain for the "Orion's" cargo before the wires should begin to furnish additional news by the "Africa" to the evening papers.

Prattling, the river lisps of love and of repose And in the distance shimmers, faintly dies; A flower, secret listening as its message flows, A roguish kiss of gratitude in fragrance blows, While beckoning stars smile from the silent skies.

It will do well, love those that love good fashions, good cloaths, and rich; they invite men to admire 'em, that speak the lisp of Court.

It will do well, love those that love good fashions, Good clothes and rich, they invite men to admire 'm, That speak the lisp of Court.