Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high.

He saw the blaze upon his hearth Come gleaming down the glen; For he was fain for home again, And rode before his men "'Tis many a weary day," he'd sigh, "Since I would leave her side; I'll never more leave Scotland's shore And yon, my dark-eyed bride.

Adj. compelling &c v.; coercive, coactive^; inexorable &c 739; compulsory, compulsatory^; obligatory, stringent, peremptory. forcible, not to be trifled with; irresistible &c 601; compelled &c v.; fain to.

The King would fain with friendly force Urge him anew to mount his horse, Turn from the piteous sight away, And fresh begin life's saddened day, His loved ones looking yet to greet, Where ne'er shall part the blest who meet.

Thy navy rides on seas before unpress'd, And strikes a terror through the haughty East; Algiers and Tunis from their sultry shore With horror hear the British engines roar; 100 Fain from the neighbouring dangers would they run, And wish themselves still nearer to the sun.

The note is struck with certainty and power in the first sonnet of the series: "Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show,

I'll fain unto my cell, to my fair lady; But John and Fauconbridge are at my heels; [Sees John.

Miss Pilbeam agreed with him, and began to laughto laugh so heartily that he was fain at last to draw his chair close to hers and pat her somewhat anxiously on the back.