First the dark wolf-man, Lycaon; then 'twas he men called The Swan; And now this man of steeds!...

Diomêdes was a son of Arês, the War-god or Slayer, as were the other wild tyrants mentioned just below, Lycâon, the Wolf-hero, and Cycnus, the Swan.

See, there is a new swan!

There is another swan!

A new swan has come!

How happy the new swan is!

Each swan wore a gold crown on his head.

[Eliza throws the eleven coats over the eleven Swans, who turn to eleven little princes, but the youngest has a swan's wing instead of an arm, for the last sleeve was not finished.]

never to be renewed, since you are not going to returnthose beautiful words of the Swan of Avon occurred to me: 'To be or not to bethat is the question; Whether 'tis better in this world to bear The slings and arrows of' "I don't remember the rest; but the whole of this handsome soliloquy expresses my sentiments, and the sincerity with which, "My dear Ashley, "I am yours, ".

And a stiff gale, (as Flaccus sings) The Theban swan extends his wings, When thro' th' æthereal clouds he flies, To the same pitch our swan doth rise: Old Pindar's flights by him new-reach'd, When on that gale, his wings are stretch'd.

And a stiff gale, (as Flaccus sings) The Theban swan extends his wings, When thro' th' æthereal clouds he flies, To the same pitch our swan doth rise: Old Pindar's flights by him new-reach'd, When on that gale, his wings are stretch'd.

But the wrath of the waters, The icy-cold way At times the swan's song; In the scream of the gannet I sought for my joy, In the moan of the sea whelp For laughter of men, In the song of the sea-mew For drinking of mead.

On the other hand, this poetry uses many direct and forcible metaphors, such as "wave-ropes" for ice, the "whale-road" or "swan-road" for the sea, the "foamy-necked floater" for a ship, the "war-adder" for an arrow, the "bone-house" for the body.

Goose and Swan.

Was it not the Swan that Wordsworth's "Waggoner" so triumphantly passed?

And behind the Swan is there not that fold in the hills where Wordsworth's "Michael" built, or tried to build, his sheepfold?

"It be known to thee, O Tantlatch, that the wild goose and the swan and the little ringed duck be born here in the low-lying lands.

As the wild goose and the swan and the little ringed duck are called, so is called this Stranger Man who has lingered with us and who now must go.

The goose mates with the goose, nor does the swan mate with the little ringed duck.

It is not well that the swan should mate with the little ringed duck.

Like the swan, who sings his one song, when feeling that death is near, Mr. Willson gave his brother co-workers in the Theosophical field all that was best, ripest and most suggestive in his thought in the series of articles the last of which is to come out in the same number with this.

" "Whiter Galet than the white withie-wind, Fresher than a field, higher than a tree, Brighter than glass, more wanton than a kid, Softer than swan's down, or ought that may be.

It survives in full vigouror, shall one say, it sings its swan-song?in the works of Oscar Wilde.

"STEAM-BOAT EXPLOSION.Captain Duncan, of the 'Swan,' reports that the tow-boat, 'Daniel Webster,' burst her larboard boiler on the 6th instant, while towing in a vessel over the South-west Bar.

you were drowned in Swan Lake!