"John Wesley Farwell, Jr.," said that young man to himself, "this thing is not your discoverybut how does that bit of Keats' go?" 'Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacificand all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien,' There you have it!

* THE WEARY WATCHER.

I've glued my eye on seer and sage, On Mecca's brave Sherif; I've fastened it on what's-his-name, The famed Albanian chief, Till, wearying of the watcher's task, At length I crave relief.

The watcher's eyes strained.

Yet no watcher borne away upon the boat, nor any sorrowing one left upon the shore, turned away, as the last traces of the loved ones faded, with a heavier heart, or a feeling of such utter loneliness as did poor Hasty.

His mouth twitched with a curious tremor, and he covered it with his hand as though he feared some silent watcher in that sleeping world might see and mock his weakness.

"After a time the watcher called out: "'Nanahboozhoo! Indians are coming!' "Nanahboozhoo slightly raised himself, but he saw no Indians, so he lay down to sleep again.

So he became very angry with his watcher, his broad back, and gave it a great thrashing, saying: "'There!

take that, you great stupid watcher, for so disturbing me with your false reports!' "Then Nanahboozhoo fell asleep again.

watcher think I am?" yelled the Object, in desperation.

But, finally the drowsy god asserted himself, and the watcher passed off into a deep slumber.

When he first went to his parish, he found, to his great disgust, only the common books of devotion, viz.:P. Cochem, the Great and Little Garden, the Spiritual Soul-watcher, &c.

But the moment Morris spoke this silent secret watcher popped back again out of sight.

The stride from the scattered savagery of the earlier stone period to the first cities, historically a vast interval, would have seemed to that still watcher, measuring by the standards of astronomy and the rise and decline of races and genera and orders, a, step almost abrupt.

They ignored certain preliminary and all-too-pointed comments of the watcher.

Then the watcher saw the chair pushed back, and the little scarlet cap, covering the white hair, rise above it.

The hills tumble this way and that; below is the great weald of Sussex, blue with vapour, spotted with gold fields, level as a landscape by Hobbema; Chanctonbury Ring stands up like a gaunt watcher; its crown of trees is pressed upon its brow, a dark and imperial crown.

The time watcher.

The watcher from the sky.

The watcher from the sky.

It seemed to the watcher that there was an unusually large number of visitors in the house that evening.

All Goethe's work, whether poetry or prose, his plays, his novels, his letters, his conversations, are richly bestrewn with the luminous sentences of a keen-eyed, steadfast, patient, indefatigable watcher of human life.

CONTENTS CHAPTER I. A WATCHER OF LILIES II.

HIS VISITOR CHAPTER I. A WATCHER OF LILIES.

They wheeled Mrs. Poynsett away at her usual hour, when he was dozing; and as Frank was still tossing and moaning incoherently, and often required to be held, Julius persuaded Anne to let him take her place with him, while she became Raymond's watcher.