Then from the chalice pour'd she on the stones, That lay all cold and black upon the path, And at that mystic baptism, anew Sprang up the chilly sleepers in amaze, Their stony hearts back-melted into Life; Soon follow'd her a train of noble youths, Gather'd from East, and West, and North, and South, The rarest and the goodliest of Earth.

In those proud days, he little cared For husbandry or tillage; To blither tasks did Simon rouse 15 The sleepers of the village.

The sleepers on the bench sprang up like one man, seized their lanterns, and we all rushed out together.

Finding that the road did not run a sleeper to Chazy Junction, Mr. Merrick had ordered one attached to the train for his especial use; but he did not allow even Patsy to suspect this extravagance.

I hope that you do not mind sharing' a sleeper with me?" "I should be proud to share with you the measliest dug-out in a Flanders graveyard," replied the Colonel emphatically.

weary sleeper by the lone sea-shore, Where billows toil for ever 'mid the rocks, Scourged on by winds in stormy equinox, Rise!

It did not rouse the sleepers from the bench; neither did the new-comer's remark that it was a "deuce of a night" bring forth any argumentwe were one on that point.

He would ride down to the circular corral, turn out the Gold Dust maverickgive her again to the range and freedomand while the unconscious sleepers at the ranch dreamed he would pass on, silently, toward the south and Mexico should throw about him her black arms of mystery!

At the end of that dreadful period old Misery entered and aroused the sleeper without ceremony.

But now they came battering down, under the earright, left, as the man turned blindly to avoid themon the jaw, even on the suffering eyes, and that at last stung the sleeper into something like consciousness.

Some of the more daring among them, venturesome 'coons or 'possums perhaps, may even have invaded the precincts of the charmed circle, searching with their keen little noses for traces of castaway food; but, if so, their presence did not disturb the sleepers within that shelter.

She bowed her fair face on the sleeper before her, Night came and shed its cold tears on her brow; Crimson the blush of the morning past o'er her,

" "He's a very light sleeper as a rule," replied Allerdyke.

An hour later the tea was exhausted, but Mrs. Ruggles yet sat at her lonely table, as still as the sleepers around her.