Stand with him at midnight on the Pampa,let the track be lost,no moon or stars; the vaqueano quietly dismounts, examines the foliage of the trees, if any are near, and if there are none, plucks from the ground a handful of roots, chews them, smells and tastes the soil, and tells you that so many hours' travel due north or south will bring you to your destination.

filtered through the dregs of Paine, Each pert adept disowns a Briton's part, And plucks the name of England from his heart.

Not Euripus' (unquiet flood) so oft Ebbs in a day, and floweth to and fro, As fortune's change plucks down that was aloft, And mingleth joy with interchange of woe.

[Footnote 9: 'plucks the spirit out of all forms of contracting or agreeing.'

And gradually the sense of security grows, and grows into a sense of victory, as with the boy who fears his first fence, plucks up heart for the second, is rather pleased at the third, and craves for the triumph of the fourth and of all the rest, sorry at last when the run is over.

He goes muffled like a thief, and carries still the marks of one; for he steals upon man cowardly, plucks him by the throat, makes him stand, and fleeces him.

But his solicitor plucks at his gown and points out to him that he is confusing his briefs.

[She gathers a star-flower and plucks off the leaves one after another.]

[She plucks off the leaves and murmurs to herself.]

But God, in mercy, from his throne Looks down, on earth below, And plucks from thence, to be his own, The fairest flowers that grow.

" This poem described the agonies of a viva-voce examination, and it derived its title from two facts of evil omenthat the Vulture plucks its victim, and that the Husbandman makes his living by ploughing: "Two undergraduates came up, And slowly took a seat, They knit their brows, and bit their thumbs, As if they found them sweet; And this was odd, because, you know, Thumbs are not good to eat.

Passion plucks no berries from the myrtle and ivy, nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius, nor tells of rough satyrs and fauns with cloven heel.

" Sang Sire Edward: "I sing of Death, that comes unto the king, And lightly plucks him from the cushioned throne; And drowns his glory and his warfaring In unrecorded dim oblivion; And girds another with the sword thereof; And sets another in his stead to reign; And ousts the remnant, nakedly to gain Styx' formless shore and nakedly complain Midst twittering ghosts lamenting life and love.

Zorro plucks a pigeon.

Whatever a mind can conceive clearly and express beautifully, that is good art, whether it be a harrowing tragedy in which murders and adulteries cluster as thick as flies, or the shaking of a reed in a stream as the current plucks it softly from below.

Reliance on God is the Dove to our Ark, And Peace is the olive she plucks in the dark.

AMOROUS ANTITHESES When a Marguerite plucks the petals of a marguerite, muttering "he loves mehe loves me not," her heart flutters in momentary anguish with every "not," till the next petal soothes it again.

A dreadful cold plucks at each hair, Her mouth is stretched to cry, But sudden, with a gush of joy, It narrows to a sigh.

REDFEATHER [plucks out his own sword].

One may not call a man hard and selfish who plucks out his eye for the sake of a God-imposed duty, or who deliberately thrusts away happiness and accepts a life of misery and heartache because of the chains with which God bound him at his birth.

What, Laura, say, the vortex that can draw Body to body in its strong control; Beloved Laura, what the charmèd law That to the soul attracting plucks the soul?

She plucks blossoms from the empty air!"

In the light his orders sparkle with a faint and careless grace, But a friendly, gentle smile is always playing on his face When he plucks the ruddy rose leaves that some rounded bosom wears, Or when, like to withered blossoms, kingdoms he asunder tears.

Smiling, plucks the god of music One sweet orange from the tree "Share with me the fruit, thou fair one,

This plant is to be found plentifully on our maritime coasts, where the inhabitants plucks the tender stalks, and pickle them.