At the head of a low-browed rock, luxuriant dogwood bushes and willows arch over from bank to bank, embowering the stream with their leafy branches; and drooping plumes, kept in motion by the current, fringe the brow of the cascade in front.

But Lachesis, her hair adorned, her tresses neatly bound, Pierian laurel on her locks, her brows with garlands crowned, Plucks me from out the snowy wool new threads as white as snow, Which handled with a happy touch change colour as they go, Not common wool, but golden wire; the Sisters wondering gaze, As age by age the pretty thread runs down the golden days.

He gazed for a moment, with glowing, passionate eyes, upon that matchless formupon that angelic face, and thenhe clasped his brows in hopeless agony.

Her eyes went from the lightly tossed hair on his brow to the mud-spattered bootswas he only a human being?

and from under his be-dabbled smock he drew forth a head, pale as to cheek and hair, whose wide eyes stared blindly as it dangled in his hairy hand; and now, staring up at this awful, sightless thingthat brow at whose frown a city had trembled, those pallid lips that had smiled, and smiling, doomed men and women to torment and deatha hush fell on Belsaye and no man spoke or stirred.

Now did she, meeting his eyes, put up one white hand, setting back sombre hood and snowy wimple, and stooping tenderly above him, behold, in that moment down came the shining glory of her lustrous hair to fall about the glowing beauty of her face, touching his brow like a caress.

Not all the arguments of Captain Bryan and his lady, nor the simple entreaties of Lady Luna, could induce Birkendelly to put off his engagement to meet his love on the Birky Brow on the evening of the 9th of August; but he promised soon to return, pretending that some business of the utmost importance called him away.

The bust, says the Danish critic, at first sight impresses one with an undefinable classic grace; on closer examination the restlessness of a life is reflected in a brow over which clouds seem to hover, but clouds from which we look for lightnings.

Here let us carve a lake basin; there, a Yosemite Valley; here, a channel for a river with fluted steps and brows for the plunge of songful cataracts.

And presently came hasting divers esquires and knights, who, beholding Beltane, his costly mail, his silver belt and golden hair, seized upon him right joyfully and bore him into an inner ward, and threw him down upon the floor, marvelling and rejoicing over him, while Beltane lay there fast bound and helpless, staring up with frowning brow as one that strives to think, yet cannot.

Johnnie smiled at the memory of how her mother laughed over the suggestion, with a drawing of slant brows above big, tragic dark eyes, a look of suffering from the mirth which adds the crown to joyousness.

With something better than Hope at the bottom: Certainty!" He laughed quietly, confidently, and his bright eyes flashed under their dark brows from one to the other.

She leaned her brow against the casement.

II Some thirty years after the departure of the Persian embassy to Aurelian, two travellers met at the bottom of a dell in trans-Gangetic India, having descended the hill-brow by opposite paths.

Yet, would I rather Trust the smooth brow than that deep furrow'd one.

" She pretended to draw her pretty brow into a frown, but she could not help smiling.

Piers raised his brows without looking up.

And I turned my eyesogling, suspicious eyes of furtive horrorreluctantly, lingeringly turnedand I peered deeply with lowered brows across the murky winds at that same spot: but no man was there.

Young men were these for the most part, yet were there many grizzled heads and wrinkled brows among them grim lords of the old Duke's following much versed in war, calm of judgment and wise in council; but one and all did they stare upon my Beltane in wonder at his youth because of his so famous deeds.

He noted her high oval brow around which the dark hair clustered engagingly; her flexible, rather large mouth, with lips well but not seductively arched, and her clear skin with its uniform tinting.

What do you want with me?" Half-sullenly, half-aggressively, Guy Ranger flung the questions, standing with lowering brow before his captor.

But he stood silent, bending puzzled brows toward her.

It was the house of the poet Machen, whose name, when I saw it, I remembered very well, and he had married a very beautiful young girl of eighteen, obviously Spanish, who lay on the bed in the large bright bedroom to the right of the loggia, on her left exposed breast being a baby with an india-rubber comforter in its mouth, both mother and child wonderfully preserved, she still quite lovely, white brow under low curves of black hair.

Whether or not the common accusation against the Medici as a family, that they had but one motivemercenary ambition and self-aggrandisementis true, the fact remains that the crown did not reach their brows until one hundred and seventy years from the first appearance of old Giovanni di Bicci in Florentine affairs.

The genius of charity, Christian love, and justice will mourningly fly the earth; a heavy curse will fall upon moralityoppressed men will despair, and only the Cains of mankind walk proudly with impious brow about the ruins of liberty on earth.