Thus in reference to the bright hopeful season of spring, in which it blossoms, it has been regarded as symbolical of the return of happiness, whilst its delicate perfume has long been indicative of sweetness, a characteristic thus beautifully described by Keats: "No flower amid the garden fairer grows Than the sweet lily of the lowly vale, The queen of flowers.

He visited these healing-wells, where he, "found growing over the same a fair ash-tree, whose boughs did hang over the spring of water, whereof some that were seare and rotten, and some that of purpose were broken off, fell into the water and were all turned into stone.

" The blasting-root, known in Germany as spring-wurzel, and by us as spring-wort, possesses similar virtues, for whatever lock is touched by it must yield.

A certain Lady Nis here stated to have convinced Dr. Hutton of her possession of this remarkable gift, and by means of it to have indicated to him the existence of a spring of water in one of his fields adjoining the Woolwich College, which, in consequence of the discovery, he was enabled to sell to the college at a higher price.

" It is difficult, as we have already noted in a previous chapter, to discover why some of our sweetest and fairest spring-flowers should be associated with ill-luck.

I wish I were a Primrose, A bright yellow Primrose, blowing in the spring!

DON'T KILL THE BIRDS Don't kill the birds, the pretty birds That sing about your door, Soon as the joyous spring has come

" So, for just one more merry day To the great tree the leaflets clung, Frolicked and danced, and had their way, Upon the autumn breezes swung, Whispering all their sports among, "Perhaps the great tree will forget, And let us stay until the spring, If we all beg, and coax, and fret.

A few primroses peeped out of sheltered corners under the hedge, and held out a timid promise of spring.

There was a soft mist of heat; the long-delayed spring coming suddenly, after storms of cold rain and gales of wind had swept the Youle valley.

Doesn't it look pretty in the spring?"

Beautiful thou art, and may Heaven bless thee, So that in thy footprints the grass shall spring.

If these, that hear the history rehears'd, Condemn my play, when it begins to spring, I'll let it wither, while it is a bud, And never show the flower to the king.

What birds are these, that sing so cheerfully, As if they did salute the flowering spring?

Know you, where-e'er a spring is nigh?

As light as a fly, In pleasant jollity: With mirth and melody, Sing Money, Money, Money! Money the minion, the spring of all joy; Money, the medicine that heals each annoy; Money, the jewel that man keeps in store; Money, the idol that women adore!

Fortune, of-worldly state the governess: Fortune, of man's delight the mistress: Fortune, of earthly bliss the patroness: Fortune, the spring of joy and happiness.

Thou holy man, to whom the higher powers Have given the gift of cures beyond conceit, Welcome thou art unto Earl Morgan's house: The house of sorrow yet, unless by thee Our joys may spring anew; which if they do, Reward and praise shall both attend on thee.

Often as she had visited the spot since, she had never done so without the memory of that spring morning flashing unbidden through her brain.

His enjoyment was as far inferior to Mercy's in genuineness and enduringness as is the shallow lake to the quenchless spring.

The waters of each may leap and sparkle alike, to the eye, in the sunshine; but when drought has fallen on the lake, and the place that knew it knows it no more, the spring is full, free, and glad as ever.

"She fell away in her first ages spring, Whilst yet her leafe was greene, and fresh her rinde;

For lusty Spring now in his timely howre Is ready to come forth, him to receive; And warns the Earth with divers colord flowre

The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trompet shrill hath thrise already sounded.

When the duet of the "Maître de Chapelle" was over, I returned into the hall; the distant crashing of the mitrailleuse at Neuilly, borne towards us on the fresh spring breeze, in through the open windows, joined its voice to the applause of the audience.