Thy sudden doom, O Bion, Apollo himself lamented, and the Satyrs mourned thee, and the Priapi in sable raiment, and the Panes sorrow for thy song, and the Fountain-fairies in the wood made moan, and their tears turned to rivers of waters.

34. All stood aloof, and at his partial moan Smiled through their tears; well knew that gentle band Who in another's fate now wept his own; As in the accents of an unknown land He sang new sorrow; sad Urania scanned 5 The Stranger's mien, and murmured 'Who art thou?'

What form leans sadly o'er the white death-bed, In mockery of monumental stone, The heavy heart heaving without a moan?

Ye caverns and ye forests, cease to moan!

There is heard His voice in all her music, from the moan Of thunder to the song of night's sweet bird.

His partial moan.

The poet now adjures the caverns, forests, flowers, fountains, and air, to 'cease to moan.'

And in my dream methought that I wept and made great moan for my fowls, and for the destruction which the hawk had made; and my maids came about me to comfort me.

And thus I heard her make her moan: 'O willow, willow, willow, willow!

So here, by brookside, all alone, I sit me down and make my moan.

So, presently, she changed her tone, And 'gan to cease her from her moan, 'O willow, willow, willow, willow!

"There all alone he made his moan, And eke did sob and sigh, And weep till it would move a stone,

Snatch'd from her shoulder with despairing moan, She clasps them at that dim-seen roofless stone.

Before those thresholds (never can they know The face of traveller passing to and fro,) No peasant leans upon his pole, to tell 240 For whom at morning tolled the funeral bell; Their watch-dog ne'er his angry bark foregoes, Touched by the beggar's moan of human woes; The shady porch ne'er offered a cool seat To pilgrims overcome by summer's heat.

The getting of it on is anguish, and as to the getting of it off, I heard her moan to her nurse the other night, as she wriggled her curly head through the too-small exit, "Oh I only God knows how I hate gettin' peeled out

O thou great god, who from thy highest throne Hast stooped down, and felt the force of love, Bend gentle ears unto the woful moan Of me poor wretch, to grant that I require!

Or shall I moan thy death, O noble Earl?

Why take an irrevocable step?' 'Because it is irrevocable; because I shall enter an utterly new life, in which old things shall pass away, and all things become new, and I shall forget the very names of Parent, Englishman, Citizen,the very existence of that strange Babel of man's building, whose roar and moan oppress me every time I walk the street.

Now and then one would hear a moan or a word from some of the party.

"Yes; but" "Oh! oh!" cried poor Ally, as a fresh flash of memory overcame her, "that must be thethe" She was going to say, "the old Beacon Street number," when, confused and dismayed, she gave another step backward, her foot slipped, and she fell headlong to the foot of the stairs, where she lay white and motionless, not a sigh or moan escaping her as she was lifted and carried into the parlor.

The Lady Agathar still smiles, and fills The moment with all pleasure and delight, No shadow of her sorrow or her pain Shall fall upon her Christalan to-day, But deep within her heart she maketh moan, "My Christalan goes forth to-morrow morn.

"Wilbur can moan and groan around with a hangover for a couple of days, but I have to be right on the job all the time with this smiling face and laughing eye thing, or he would seek some other place for sympathy.

Once Sandersen, in the grip of some passion of remorse or of fear of death, bowed his head with a strange moan.

" This brought a peculiar, low-pitched moan from Cold Feet.

" "What is that, mother?" "The dove, my son And that low, sweet voice, like a widow's moan, [Illustration] Is flowing out from her gentle breast, Constant and pure, by that lonely nest, As the wave is poured from some crystal urn, For her distant dear one's quick return.