All the pavilions looked very gay with bright-coloured walls and turrets, and there were flags, palms, flowers, and fountains everywherethe Seine running through the middle with fanciful bridges and boats.

Yet you may take my word without an Oath, Were you as old as Time, and I were young and gay As April Flowers, which all are fond to gather; My Beauties all should wither in the Shade,

Then, observing his friend's marked absence of hilarity, "You're very gay in your fine fringes.

No, my poor friend," continued he, addressing the Caterpillar, "disdain you as they may, and unpromising as your aspect certainly is at present, the time is at" hand when you will prank it with the gayest of them all.

There are my compeers, gay at court, While here the tears my face begrime.

Oh, he has counsel at his side, And wisdom for his duty, And laughter gay for hours of play, And tenderness and beauty, And fellowship divinely rare, True friends who never doubt him, Unchanging love, and God above, Who keeps good books about him.

* From Gay to Grave.

That is all; but why do you ask, my lady?" "Only," said Mademoiselle, "because you have been silent for the past five minutes, and you never are more gay than when you embark on an adventure.

The dan-de-lion blos-soms gay From the fields have passed away, And in their place left heads of grey.

" "It's bad enough for one to have the name of being gay without starting that child running around nights with" "Ida Bell!" "You dry up, Ida Bell!

Maisie's curtains, Maisie's couch, covered with flowers that smiled at her, gay on the white ground.

The boy was so gay after his success that in the beginning, he laughed and made fun of the fox.

Young as Horatio was, and gay by nature, he sometimes loved to indulge the most serious meditations; and this place, as well as the condition of those he served, remonstrating to him the instability of all human greatness, he made this general reflection, that there was nothing truly valuable but virtue, because the owner could be deprived of that only by himself, and not by either the fraud or force of others.

She started up, looked round, and, with a piercing cry, saw Walter Gay behind her!

I will never think of her again, nor make a fool of myself by putting nose-gays into her keyhole, if you will only not look so sober any more.

His mother is years older than the Baronne, and not a bit gay like her.

* * * "And I can scarcely ride with you to court, For old am I, and rough the ways and wild; But Yniol goes, and I full oft shall dream I see my princess as I see her now, Clothed with my gift, and gay among the gay.'

The Prospect of a future State is the secret Comfort and Refreshment of my Soul; it is that which makes Nature look gay about me; it doubles all my Pleasures, and supports me under all my Afflictions.

She had made it gay beyond Imagination, and was every day adding something new to it.

yet some would say, With them he could seem gay amid the gay; But own'd that smile, if oft observed and near Waned in its mirth and wither'd to a sneer; That smile might reach his lip, but pass'd not by; None e'er could trace its laughter to his eye: Yet there was softness, too, in his regard, At times a heart is not by nature hard.

"Not warp'd by passion, awed by rumour, Not grave through pride, nor gay through folly, An equal mixture of good humour, And sensible, soft melancholy.

So with regard to the intermixture of grave and gay throughout the poem.

From the Trenches OH, to be in Canada now that Spring is merry, Happy apple blossoms gay against the smiling green; Here the lilac's purple plume and here the pink of cherry, Hillsides just a drift of bloom with clover in between!

It was Kitty who took Gay under her patronage, who resented the prohibition of the 'Beggar's Opera,' remonstrated with the king and queen, and was thereupon forbidden the court.

The boys were to go home for the Christmas holidays, and under ordinary circumstances they would have felt gay over the prospect.