O trees, consume your sap in sorrow's source, Streams turn to tears your tributary course.

Green ivy-bushes at the vintner's doors He withers, and devoureth all their sap.

"The occult elements" and "latent affinities," of which material pursuits never take cognizance, are "influences as potent in adding a charm to labor or repose as dew or air, in the natural world, in giving a tint to flowers or sap to vegetation.

In that charmed circle, in which it would be difficult to say whether Jerome or Paula presided, the aesthetic mission of woman was seen fully,perhaps for the first time,which is never recognized when love of admiration, or intellectual hardihood, or frivolous employments, or usurped prerogatives blunt original sensibilities and sap the elements of inward life.

I break off a twig here and there and taste the tart or bitter sap.

"How," I asked, "does the sap get up to the top of these great maples and elms?

He tells you how the tree is a tree of a generous, virtuous, and elaborate race'a tree of God, which is full of sap,' as one said of old of suchand what could he say better, less or more?

"' Such was the fate of the poor gentle folk who for unknown ages had swung their hammocks to the stems of these Moriches, spinning the skin of the young leaves into twine, and making sago from the pith, and thin wine from the sap and fruit, while they warned their children not to touch the nests of the humming-birds, which even till lately swarmed around the lake.

When plucked, a milky sap exudes from it.

The effect, I conceive, would be indefinitely small, wonderfully transitory; there would, of course, be a momentary lacuna in the boiling surge: yet the womb of humanity is full of sap, and uberant; Ocean-tide, wooed of that Ilithyia whose breasts are many, would flow on, and the void would soon be filled.

She, protected from the sun by her straw hat, bloomed and luxuriated in this bath of light like a tropical flower, while he, in his renewed youth, felt the burning sap of the soil ascend into his veins in a flood of virile joy.

" "Yea, Brother Miles," said Elder Brewster, "the trees of the Lord are full of sap in this land, even the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted.

Then, placed in direct contact with the good earth, I sing!And that is already half the mystery, Pheasant-hen, half the mystery of my song, which is not of those songs one sings after composing them, but is received straight from the native soil, like sap!

And the time above all when that sap arises in me,the hour, briefly, in which I have genius, in which I can never doubt I have!is the hour when dawn falters on the boundaries of the dark sky.

Didst note each passing mood of wind and weather, While flying to the North on buoyant wing? Or didst thou rest upon the bare brown branches And hear the sap go singing through the trees?

[i]Others, with softer smiles, and subtler art, Can sap the principles, or taint the heart; With more address a lover's note convey, Or bribe a virgin's innocence away.

It appears to me that this should be of a liberal and enlarged nature, resting upon principlesindulgent and conciliatory as far as possible upon mere party questions, but stern in detecting and exposing all attempts to sap our constitutional fabric.

Love of his limbs, was it that, think you? Body of bullock build, Sap in the bones, and spring in the thew, A lusty youth unspilled?

The first repulses rather inflame vehemence than teach prudence; a brave and generous mind is long before it suspects its own weakness, or submits to sap the difficulties which it expected to subdue by storm.

"the old majestic trees Stand ghost-like in the Cæsar's home, As if their conscious roots were set In the old graves of giant Rome, And drew their sap all kingly yet!"

Oh, how I hate this living death which has swallowed all my teens, which is greedily devouring my youth, which will sap my prime, and in which my old age, if I am cursed with any, will be worn away!

En nex' spring, w'en he rub de sap on ag'in, he got young ag'in, en so soopl en libely dat none er de young niggers on de plantation could n' jump, ner dance, ner hoe ez much cotton ez Henry.

Love was like a springtime that brings new sap to branches grown numb in the winter's cold.

"Yes," replied Forester, "only they make a great deal of sugar in Vermont out of the sap of the maple-tree.

And the maple sap is rising