Lo, yonder on the heapèd crest Of a Greek wain, Andromachê, As one that o'er an unknown sea Tosseth; and on her wave-borne breast Her loved one clingeth, Hector's child, Astyanax....

He beheld the Pleiads, the Bear which is by some called the Wain, that moves round about Orion, and keeps still above the ocean, and the slow-setting sign Bootes, which some name the Waggoner.

[L] the ponderous timber-wain resounds; In foamy breaks the rill, with merry song, Dashed o'er the rough rock, lightly leaps along; From lonesome chapel at the mountain's feet, Three humble bells their rustic chime repeat; 140 Sounds from the water-side the hammered boat; And 'blasted' quarry thunders, heard remote!

[20] and grating wain To flat-roofed towns, that touch the water's bound, Or lurk in woody sunless glens profound, Or, from the bending rocks, obtrusive cling, 85

XXXVII They looked and saw a lengthening road, and wain 325 That rang down a bare slope not far remote: The barrows glistered bright with drops of rain, Whistled the waggoner with merry note, The cock far off sounded his clarion throat; But town, or farm, or hamlet, none they viewed, 330 Only were told there stood a lonely cot A long mile thence.

She saw the carman bend to scoop the flood As the wain fronted her,wherein lay one, A pale-faced Woman, in disease far gone.

No plough their sinews strained; on grating road No wain they drove, and yet, the yellow sheaf In every vale for their delight was stowed: For them, in nature's meads, the milky udder flowed.

"And he, 'tis said, did first compute the stars Which beam in Charles's wain, and guide the bark Of the Phoenecian sailor o'er the sea.

Thou wouldst have fled, though cumbered with thy wain.

Great Bear, Charles's Wain, the Plough, the Dipper, the Chariot of Davidwith what fancies the human mind through all the ages has played with that glorious constellation!

And, through the win-ter's cold and snow, We trust-ed that God's care would bring The green and ten-der blade in spring, Which che-rished by the sun and rain Of sum-mer, now has yield-ed grain In au-tumn, when the reap-er leaves His cot to cut and bind the sheaves, And load with them the nod-ding wain Which bears them home-ward from the plain.

Kitte-mau-giz-ze Sho-wain-e-min, is their common expression to an agentI am poor, show me pity, (or rather) charity me; for they use their substantives for verbs.

No little Gradgrind had ever seen a face in the moon; no little Gradgrind had ever learnt the silly jingle, "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are"; each little Gradgrind having at five years old dissected the Great Bear, and driven Charles's Wain like a locomotive engine-driver.

Creakingly the wain followed him, pausing and starting and pausing again with groans of inertia.

It is in wain for a boy to attempt to hide himself from that young man.

The wain trains which had lately followed the packhorse trains over the Alleghanieswith the widening of the Wilderness Roadwere already bringing many comforts and even luxuries to the cabins of the well-to-do settlers.

The happy speculator in future sits on the piled-up wain, singing "I told you so," with the submarine and the flying machine and the Marconigram and the North Pole successfully achieved.

By Harry Wain.

Harry Wain (A); 31Oct74; R588242. R588243.

" "I rec'lect now," said Job Lear very slowly, "that the wain-rope was wet

In it also he gave monition for the annual choice of collectors for the poor; warning for the yearly perambulation of the parish bounds; and public announcement of the six certain days on which each year every parishioner had to attend in person or send wain and men for the repair of highways.

Cordy Jeaffreson, Middlesex County Records, i, 100-1 (Indictment reciting that John Johnson had had due notice in his parish church, yet had not sent his wain, etc., 1576).

Or in the summer blithe with lamb-cropped green, Save the one track, where naught more rude is seen Than the plump wain at even Bringing home four months' sunshine bound in sheaves.

There also stands a speech-maker by rote, Pulling the strings of his boxed raree-show; And in the lapse of many years may come Prouder itinerant, mountebank, or he 35 Whose wonders in a covered wain lie hid.

At the same time they selected and hewed down a tall, straight treethe tallest and straightest they could find; and, stripping off its branches, placed it on a wain, and dragged it to the village with the help of an immense team of oxen, numbering as many as forty yoke.

The hymn for None expresses this: "O God, unchangeable and true, Of all the light and power, Dispensing light in silence through Each successive hour; Lord, brighten our declining day, That it may never wane

" The prosperity of the poor peasant was soon on the wane, and before long he was reduced to abject poverty.

The moon, on the wane,a small crescent lying on its back,was lowering toward the horizon.

Yon rising Moon that looks for us again How oft hereafter will she wax and wane; How oft hereafter rising look for us Through this same Gardenand for one in vain!

subsidence, wane, ebb, decline; ebbing; descent &c 306; decrement, reflux, depreciation; deterioration &c 659; anticlimax; mitigation &c (moderation) 174.

unincreased^ &c 35; decreased &c v.; decreasing &c v.; on the wane &c n.. Phr. a gilded halo hovering round decay

But though such acts pleased the people, all of them had not forgiven him the proposition about the franchise; and his popularity was on the wane.

No sooner is influenza on the wane than we read of a serious outbreak of Jazz music in London.

The light of the afternoon had but just begun to wane, and she had not made three steps into the apartment, before her eyes fell upon a pair of faded, light blue shoes, which stood side by side upon a table.

The gulls were riding on the crests of the waves, or skimming so closely down on the water that it was hard to know whether they were swimming or flying; and long strings of geese overhead all headed southward showed plainly that summer was on the wane.

From that time the cause of the Confederate States was on the wane.

The herd drifted slowly downwind until late afternoon, eating their way rather than travelling, but when the heat began to wane and the slant sunlight took on a yellow tone they began to show signs of unrest, milling in a compact group with the foals frolicking on the outskirts of the circle.

It may be the proud boast of England's hero, that the subjugator of Europe fell before him, not in the wane of his genius, but in the full possession of those martial talents which placed him foremost in the list of conquerorsleading that very army which had overthrown every power that had hitherto opposed it, now perfect in its discipline, flushed with recent success, and confident of approaching victory.

She trod a waxing moon, that soon would wane, And, drinking borrow'd light, be fill'd again: 650 With downcast eyes, as seeming to survey The dark dominions, her alternate sway.

This interest prepared him, as it has so many other minds, for the acceptance of those speculative views which were built up on the foundation of science when the transcendental movement began to wane.

Mr. Stephens gives as true proverbs * * * * * "In the wane of the moon, A cloudy morning bodes a fair afternoon.

The attempt stands in need of all the indulgence which the German scholar will readily allow that a much abler translator might reasonably require. 1 For ever fair, for ever calm and bright, Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice Moons wane, and races wither to the tomb, And 'mid the universal ruin, bloom

" My own interest in the coming drug certainly did not wane in the time.

The year was on the wane and the November days were coming to an early blackness.

" She sighed, leaned back, dreamy eyed, watching the sun spots glow and wane on the weather-beaten footbridge.

Having known her in the flush of life, when all her faculties were at their zenith, and in the repose of age, when her powers began to wane, her withdrawal from among us seemed as beautiful and natural as the changing foliage, from summer to autumn, of some grand old oak I have watched and loved.

Nor did my admiration wane when I discovered that Marshall was shallow in his appreciations, superficial in his judgments, that his talents did not pierce below the surface; il avait si grand air, there was fascination in his very bearing, in his large, soft, colourful eyes, and a go and dash in his dissipations that carried you away.

But he showed no sign of anger, and gradually her enthusiasm began to wane.

"Laidly and awsome ye shall wane Wi' toil, and care, and travail-pain.

She was accompanied and sometimes assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer, professional readers boththe last distinguished more for grace and beauty, even though now on the wane of life, than she ever had been for talent, but eminently fitted, both by education and character, for a guide and companion.