But friends whom she could not then expect to see were near, and the wounded heart found a balm and a consolation beyond its hopes.

I have often poured the balm of consolation into the bleeding heart of the unhappy.

But bring some medicine to relieve his wounds Quick, bring the matchless balm for Rustem's cure; He must not die, the champion must not die!"

But, oh, how far each other pang above 85 Throbs the wild agony of hopeless love; That grief, for which in vain shall comfort shed Her healing balm, or time in pity spread The veil, that throws a shade o'er other care; For here, and here alone, profound despair 90 Casts o'er the suff'ring soul a lasting gloom, And slowly leads her victim to the tomb.

I carry with me, notwithstanding, the oil which proves a balm to many sorrows; that will be sufficient.

Thus taste the feast, by nature spread, Ere youth, and all its joys are fled; Come, taste with me the balm of life, Secure from pomp, and wealth, and strife.

then His daughters came, and begged for healing balms From her who knew so well to heal.

From which the breeze derives its liquid balm.

So the Church sanctions the sacrifice: Therefore inhale this healing balm, And breathe this fresh life into thine; Accept the comfort and the calm She offers, as a gift divine, Let her fall down and anoint thy feet With the ointment costly and most sweet Of her young blood, and thou shall live.

So, in our age, too prone to sport with pain, Might soft humanity resume her reign; Pride without rancour feel th' objected fault, And folly blush, as willing to be taught; Critics grow mild, life's witty warfare cease, And true good-nature breathe the balm of peace.

The bleeding heart needs a balm to heal it; and there is none but the love of its kind,none but the affection of a human heart.

Who, loving, lingered yet to guide me, When all her boon companions fled, Who stands consoling yet beside me, And follows to the House of Dread? Thine FRIENDSHIPthine the hand so tender, Thine the balm dropping on the wound, Thy task the load more lightly to render O! earliest sought and soonest found!

Soft silver-stemmed, red poppies, That from the rain and sun Gather a balm to heal some earth-born sorrow, When their glad day is done.

Childhood can weep over its sorrows; it is only later griefs that refuse the healing balm of tears.

Then off we hie to the hill and the dell To the field, the meadow, and bower: In the columbine's horn we love to dwell, To dip in the lily with snow-white bell, To search the balm in its odorous cell, The mint, and rosemary flower.

look upon your child, And Heav'n in ruth will smite your drouthy heart, And send the balm of tears about your soul.

The tulips are all a-blaze and a-stare, making one blink with the dazzle of their odorless beauty: the frolicsome young wind is shaking out their balm from the hyacinth-bells, and the sweet Nanciesmy flowersblowing all together, are swaying and congéeing to the morning airs.

When the bee keeper notices this he has only to throw dust on them and at the same time beat upon some copper vessel to collect them, thoroughly frightened, where he desires in some nearby place on which he has smeared erithacen and bees' balm and other things in which they delight.

I do not follow the counsel of a murderer.' "'Go, then, down under the gallows, and gather the balm which you shall find there, and spread it over my bloody throat.' "'Under the gallows I shall not go; on your bloody throat I shall spread no balm.

I 'minded thee at the time thou wouldst grieve for thy hot words, and 'tis a balm I send thee for thy grieved heart; 'tis my baby Kate'Baby, baby of course I thought her so and sent her to a nurse's nookery at the top of the towers to silence the wench's squawkings, and gave Stephen the care of the freshest young heifer, that the youngster might not lack for proper food, 'now under her nurse's care in the Ursuline Convent at Quebec.

money, he shews Welsted as unsuccessful. But Welsted most the poet's healing balm, Strives to extract from his soft giving palm; Unlucky Welsted!

"But let the morrow's dawn," he cried, "arrive, And not one Persian shall the day survive; Meanwhile let wine its strengthening balm impart, And add new zeal to every drooping heart.

So 'ere's our philosophy, simple an' plain: Wotever we 'ates in the bloomin' campaign, 'Tis balm to our souls, as we grumble an' cuss, To feel that the Boches are 'atin' it wuss.

Gently but searchingly he showed them their own hearts, showed them the ugly things, the strange things, the wonderful things, of their own heartsand then, when he had those hearts beating heavily and painfully before him, applied the healing balm of his message.

Friendship to me is like a flower, Yielding a balm for human woe, I less than ever could forego; More prized, more needed every hour!