BELTANE SWARE AN OATH XLVIII HOW BELTANE SET OUT FOR HANGSTONE WASTE XLIX HOW BELTANE FOUND PEACE AND A GREAT SORROW L TELLETH HOW BELTANE WENT FORTH TO HIS DUTY LI

Dressed in a thin white silk, with coiffure gray Is she, my wife, my joy in life's low way. Forth by the covering wall's high tower, I went, and saw, like rush in flower, Each flaunting girl.

~An Ode on the Return of the Troops~ Forth from the city in our cars we drove, Until we halted at the pasture ground.

In Loring's setting-forth of the awakening, the motive was not far to seek.

"I could wish I were beating down the Forth in the Loupin' Jean.

So she stole Forth like my shadow, past the sleeping wolf Who wronged my father, o'er the woolly head Of the swart eunuch, down the painted court, And by the sentinel who standing slept.

Faces of stone, and stonier faces Some from library windows wan Forth on her gardens, her green spaces, Peer and turn to their books anon.

V. COMING FORTH AS GOLD.

Her holy eyes, brimful of light, Shine all unseen and low; As if the radiant words all night Forth at those orbs would go.

An appeal may be made to every man not bewildered in this new and destructive madnesshe may be asked who among these men stand-forth with fair claims to public confidence?

"Over there, full four miles away, making across the Forth for the northern point of land.

A wee little nut lay deep in its nest A wind came up out of the sea Come, follow, follow me Come up, April, through the valley Dance to the beat of the rain, little Fern Dear little Violet Don't kill the birds, the pretty birds Down in a green and shady bed Ere my heart beats too coldly and faintly Forth into the forest straightway Forth upon the Gitche Gumee "Give me of your bark, O Birch-Tree!

ALTMAYER With my own eyes, upon a cask astride, Forth through the cellar-door I saw him ride Heavy as lead my feet are growing.

They had gone, on a fine, clear, winter day, along the coast of the Firth of Forth towards Cramond; and, to diversify their amusements, they took with them a gun, which was carried by Sth, with the intention of having a shot at any wild bird or barn-door fowl that might come conveniently within his range.

But if ye lust for war, if strife must break Forth among kin, and bloodshed quench our feud, Bold Polydeuces then shall hold his hands And his cousin Idas from the abhorrèd fray: While I and Castor, the two younger-born, Try war's arbitrament; so spare our sires Sorrow exceeding.