Dryden, laurel-crown'd and hoary, Proudly stood in all his glory; Pope, as if his claims to speak Rested on the ancient Greek; And that prince of merry-men, Laughing, quaffing, "rare old Ben," Whose quaint conceits, so gay, so wild, Have oft my heart from woe beguil'd, Shone like a meteor 'midst the throng, The envy of each son of song.

His subtlety led him to "pose his apprehension with those involved enigmas and riddles of the Trinitywith incarnation and resurrection;" and to start odd inquiries: "what song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women;" or whether, after Lazarus was raised from the dead, "his heir might lawfully detain his inheritance."

Take this passage from Whitsunday, Listen, sweet dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings on me, Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing and fly away with thee, which is almost as ludicrous as the epitaph written by his contemporary, Carew, on the daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth, whose soul ...grew so fast within

But the poetry of the cavaliers reached its high-water mark in one fiery-hearted song by the noble and unfortunate James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, who invaded Scotland in the interest of Charles II., and was taken prisoner and put to death at Edinburgh in 1650.

He was the poet of a cause, and his song was keyed to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders such as raised To height of noblest temper, heroes old Arming to battle.

Milton's was an heroic age, and its song must be lyric rather than dramatic; its singer must be in the fight and of it.

Under the guise of a skillful addition to the Homeric allegory of Circe, with her cup of enchantment, it was a Puritan song in praise of chastity and temperance.

There is also a rare imaginative quality in his Song of the Exiles in Bermuda, Thoughts in a Garden, and The Girl Describes her Fawn.

The politics of the great rebellion had been of heroic proportions, and found fitting expression in song.

The dissolute wits of Charles the Second's court, Sedley, Rochester, Sackville, and the "mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease," threw off a few amatory trifles; but the age was not spontaneous or sincere enough for genuine song.

It was reserved for two mena contrast to one another in almost every respectto bring once more into British song a strong individual feeling, and with it a new warmth and directness of speech.

" Burns is the best of British song-writers.

Next after love and good fellowship, patriotism is the most frequent motive of his song.

Again she saw the figures circling around the fire and heard the words of their song: "Whose hand above this blaze is lifted Shall be with magic touch engifted To warm the hearts of lonely mortals Who stand without their open portals.

Pretty Mrs. Bates met them at the car stop with the news that Nyoda and Gladys were coming out in the automobile, and when they thought it was time for them to arrive they all lined up in the road where the drive turned off, and were ready to sing a funny song which Migwan had made up about not getting there on time.

The blue car came in sight and the girls ranged themselves straight across the road so it could not pass until the entire song had been sung.

Looking back at the peaceful hillside they had just left, it seemed that the nodding daisies and the murmuring brook and the rustling grasses all echoed the song the girls had sung around the fire just before the Council came to a close: "Darkness behind us, Peace around us, Joy before us, Light, O Light!" THE END The next volume in this series is entitled, "THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS

Anna was merrily accused by Miranda (Mrs. Callender) of sharing the General's abhorrence of facetious song.

The bent head stirred not, but a thrill answered through the hearer's frame as a second cadence ventured up and in and a voice followed it in song.

If any song is good which serves a lover's ends we need claim no more for the one that rose to Anna on the odors of the garden and drove her about the room, darting, clinging, fluttering, returning, like her own terrified bird above her in its cage.

Art-song in America; a study in the development of American music.

Corresponding to this we find the following passage in the Latin poem: Song hath power to draw from heaven the wandering huntress, Song was the witch's spell transformed the mates of Ulysses....

Corresponding to this we find the following passage in the Latin poem: Song hath power to draw from heaven the wandering huntress, Song was the witch's spell transformed the mates of Ulysses....

It is true that Theocritus introduces mythological characters in the tale of Galatea, but it should be noticed that this merely forms the theme of a song or the subject of a poetical epistle to a friend.

To distract him Karoline sings a song.