The day is fading from the sky, And softly shines the Star of Even, As watching with a lover's eye The rest of Earth the peace of Heaven; The dew is rising cool and sweet, And, zephyr-rock'd, the flowers are closing, The Night steals on with noiseless feet, Oh! gentle be my love's reposing.

* The brooklet branching from the silver Trent, The whispering birch by every zephyr bent, The woody island and the naked mead, The lowly hut half hid in groves of reed, The rural wicket and the rural stile, And frequent interspersed the woodman's pile.

May the brothers of Helen, lucid stars like you, and the Father of the winds, guide you; and may you only feel the breath of the zephyr.'

The lime may fling More potent fragrance on the zephyr's wing, The milky cocoa richer juices shed, The white guava lovelier blossoms spread:

o'er thy empurpled zone With lavish charms perennial summer strays; Soft 'midst thy spicy groves the zephyr plays, While far around the rich perfumes are thrown: The amadavid bird for thee alone Spreads his gay plumes, that catch thy vivid rays, For thee the gems with liquid lustre blaze, And Nature's various wealth is all thy own.

A zephyr, perfumed with the clean, fresh odor of lilacs, stirred the draperies of the archway which led into the conservatory and rustled the bending branches of palms and ferns.

Shame it is to see Odes to every zephyr; Ne'er a verse to thee.

" And when morning came, arose an uproar And the sailors' joyous shouts awoke us; All was stirring, all was living, moving, Bent on sailing with the first kind zephyr.

[Written at night on the Kickelhahn, a hill in the forest of Ilmenau, on the walls of a little hermitage where Goethe composed the last act of his Iphigenie.] Hush'd on the hill Is the breeze; Scarce by the zephyr The trees Softly are press'd; The woodbird's asleep on the bough.

Come, kind Zephyr, fill our red blanket-sail!

Zephyr only followed us, mild as he was strong, and strong as he was mild.

And Syracuse with pensive mien, In solitary pride, Like an untamed, but throneless queen, Crouched by the lucent tide; With honeyed thyme still Hybla teemed, Its scent each zephyr bore, And Arethusa's fountain gleamed Pellucid as of yore.

Two or three hours of as beautiful an evening as ever zephyr kissed were thus spent, after which, drawing up before the house "the King" was given, with three times three; next came "God save the King," and then "Hurrah for the Bonnets o' Blue" led the party off in the order they came to witness the ceremony of "dressing" the May-Pole.

We sat down upon its steps, and I removed my coat and was naked to my pareu in the afternoon zephyr.

Now the calm evening hastily approaches, Not a sound stirring thro' the gentle woodlands, Save that soft Zephyr with his downy pinions Scatters fresh fragrance.

Love is a zephyr, mon ami, not a tornado.

For autumn's chilling finger Has touch'd them, by decay; And now the slightest zephyr's wing Bears their frail form away: And strews them o'er the barren glebe, In withered heaps to lie The sport of many a wintry storm, As it comes surging by.

Ready in fashion to lead the ton, In the battle-field his men, He danced like a Zephyr, and, harness on, Could walk his mile in ten.

On Zephyr's wings I raise the body free; In dancing steps I teach symmetric grace.

Here and there, to and fro, about the little glade shut in from the world by its walls of living green, she tripped and whirled in unstudied gracelightly as if wingedunconscious as the wild creatures that play in the depths of the woodswayward as the zephyr that trips along the mountainside.

By the time the throng was assembled on the quays, in the streets, on the decks of feluccas, or at other points that commanded the view, the stranger was seen gliding past, in the centre of the wide and deep bay, with his jigger hauled out, and his sheets aft, looking up nearly into the wind's eye, if that could be called wind which was still little more than the sighing of the classical zephyr.

To own the truth, Raoul was in no hurry to sail, for the longer his departure was protracted the longer would he have the happiness of retaining the lovely girl on board; and the zephyr of the succeeding day would be almost certain to carry le Feu-Follet up to the island-like promontory of Monte Argentaro, the point where stood the watch-towers of which Carlo was the keeper, and in one of which he resided.

To own the truth, Raoul was so confident of having completely mystified all on shore that he felt no apprehensions from that quarter; and, desirous of prolonging his present happiness as much as possible, he had very coolly determined not to sail until the southerly air of the morning should come; which, as usual, would just suffice to carry him well into the canal, when the zephyr would do the rest.

Then he may be bound to Bastia; in which case he is wise in getting an offing before the zephyr sets in for the afternoon.

While amidst the soft Zephyr's cold Breezes I burn; Methinks if I knew whereabouts he would tread, I could breathe on his Wings, and 'twould melt down the Lead.