They take him down at Vesper-tide; In grave at Compline lay, Who thenceforth bids His Church observe The sevenfold hours alway.

The other hours were as in a Sunday office, save that these feasts had no Vesper matter.

The vesper bird's, which seems to sing of love, And mingles with the song of cherubim, As the day closes over Eden's walls: All these are nothing, to my eyes and heart, Like Adah's face.

Assume thy wingèd throne, thou Vesper of our throng!' 47. Who mourns for Adonais?

1. 9. Assume thy wingèd throne, thou Vesper of our throng!

Keats is termed 'thou Vesper of our throng' because he is the latest member of this glorified bandor, reckoning the lapse of ages as if they were but a day, its 'evening star.'

The exceptional brilliancy of the Vesper star is not, I think, impliedthough it may be remotely suggested.

Round the old grey spire in the evening calm, No more they circle in sportive glee, Hearing the hum of the vesper psalm, And the swell of the organ so far below; But far, far away, over land and sea, In the still mid-air the swift Passage-birds go.

The Vesper-bird begins with all his kindred in a general concert at early dawn, after which they are comparatively silent until sunset, when they repeat their concert, with still greater zeal than they chanted in the morning.

Thou dost now flourish, and hast bona animi, corporis, et fortunae, goods of body, mind, and fortune, nescis quid serus secum vesper ferat, thou knowest not what storms and tempests the late evening may bring with it.

To the young Vesper-singer, Great Bealing's, Playford, and what not?

"Blame as thou mayest the Papist's erring creed"which and other passages brought me back to the old Anthology days and the admonitory lesson to "Dear George" on the "The Vesper Bell," a little poem which retains its first hold upon me strangely.

"The Vesper Bell""The Chapel Bell," which was not in the Annual Anthology, but in Southey's Poems, 1797.

On a certain day about vesper time, because of the holiness of the hour, Mochuda said to his monks:"We shall not eat to-day till each one of you has made his confession," for he knew that some one of them had ill will in his heart against another.

The wedding-guests are there: But in the garden-bower the bride And bride-maids singing are: And hark the little vesper bell, 595 Which biddeth me to prayer!

She round thy sweet, domestic bower The wreath of changeless love shall twine, Watch for thy step at vesper hour, And blend her holiest prayer with thine.

* * Fair Vesper, when thy golden tresses gleam Amid the banners of the sunset sky, Thy spirit floats on every radiant beam That gilds with beauty thy sweet home on high; Then hath my soul its hour of deepest bliss, And gentle thoughts like angels round me throng, Breathing of worlds (O, how unlike to this!)

A delicious breeze comes up every morning at nine o'clock and fans the dweller in this real Arcadia until past four, when it languishes and ceases in preparation for the vesper drama of the sun's retirement from the stage of earth.

But when I heard the vesper bell Mournful peal its sad farewell; And murmuring through the evening air, Echo only answered, "where?" I thought I'd chase my fears away, And conjure up a simple lay.

SEE Vesper, Will.

Tristan and Isolde. SEE Vesper, Will.

A morning service of praise, a mid-day song of rejoicing, a vesper hymn of thankfulness.

Not the palace lights of Hesper In the Queendom of the Moon, Win me from that lovely vesper The last one of our last June.

Where heathen prayers flamed by the cocoa tree They supplicate the Christians' Deity And chant in living aisles the vesper hymn Where giant god-trees rear their temples dim.

A VESPER HYMN.