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.

The infant in the cradle lisps his name; The world exults in Mahmud's spotless fame.

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

I stood in Independence Hall, whence the spirit of freedom lisps eternal words of history to the secret recesses of your hearts.

Another prattler, too, lisps on his knee, The orphan daughter of a hapless pair, Who, voyaging upon the Indian sea, Met the fierce typhon-blastand perished there:

While a slave bewails his fetters; While an orphan pleads in vain; While an infant lisps his letters, Heir of all the age's gain; While a lip grows ripe for kissing; While a moan from man is wrung; Know, by every want and blessing, That the world is young.

[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.

The boy that walks so clumsily, as well as the great fellow that lisps, are such industrious lads, and so advanced in learning, that the master thinks both will be distinguished hereafter; and I, who(oh, my poor mother, I must confess to you)hated to labour at any thing, and have got the boys to do my lessons for me;I, instead of imitating their industry, lost all my time in ridiculing their defects.

all the energy he had once bestowed on imitating lisps and stuttering, was now engaged in catching the sounds of foreign tongues, and thus taking one step towards the citizenship of the world.

I am not describing the soft, sapient, pretty man who lisps, nor the weak-kneed young gentleman with pink cheeks who sings tenor.

He crawls about the courtyard, lisps his words, plays with toys and pulls the calves' tails, Yasoda and Rohini all the time showering upon him their doting love.

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.

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.

We all want notoriety, our desire for notoriety is ugly, but it is less hideous when it is proclaimed from a brazen tongue than when it lisps the cant of humanitarianism.

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?"