Just at the tyme When, I beeinge mounted on the baker's mare, The gates weare sett wyde ope for mee to fly.

"I pray you, my lord," quoth Fidelis, "wherefore so sad, so full of gloom and thought?" "I seek how we may win through the gates of Belsaye, Sir Fidelis, for they go strongly guarded night and day; yet this day, ere sunset, ope to us they must.

Sparks 'oped as 'ow it didn't 'urt the gentleman.

But oftener far the portal opes With the sound of coming hopes; On the joy-astonished eyes Awful heights of glory rise; Mountains, stars, and dreadful space, The Eternal's azure face.

but I 'aven't any 'opes of its doing me any good.

The morning opes on high His universal eye, 20 And on the world doth pour His glories in a golden shower; Lo!

I 'oped at fust that it was a runaway-ring, but it kept on, and the longer it kept on, the worse it got.

" BALLAD OF ALBAYALDOS Three mortal wounds, three currents red, The Christian spear Has oped in head and thigh and head Brave Albayaldos feels that death is near.