THE BALLAD OF GOD-MAKERS A bird flew out at the break of day From the nest where it had curled, And ere the eve the bird had set Fear on the kings of the world.

"'Tis Christmas eve, Ned," he said, getting up.

There is no Past with thee: bring back once more The summer eves of lovers, over which The wintry wind that raveth through the world

But never dawned a brighter eve, Than the holy night of St. Genevieve.

When I reached the quarter-deck, everything denoted the eve of a combat.

My heart has thrilled, my dearest friend, ever since you departed, yester eve, with a devious and intrinsic sensation of voluminous delight.

Neverness N. neverness; absence of time, no time; dies non; Tib's eve; Greek Kalends, a blue moon.

Two years later, on May 21st, 1695, the young father diedon the eve of St. Cecilia's Day.

Eve following eve, Dear tranquil time, when the sweet sense of Home Is sweetest!

Do you remember, Eddy, gathering some last May eve, and sitting out in the playground till sunset, watching the fires begin to twinkle on Cronck-Irey and Barrule for miles away?

So Guy lay idly waiting in the port, Gazing out eastward through the stormy mist, Gazing out eastward morn and closing eve, Seeking some break amid the hurtling clouds.

" Thus spake aloud the brave Gazul, One gloomy Tuesday night; Gloomy the eve, as he prepared For victory in the fight.

To-night there was a bit of a sigh in them: his heart was tender: about the Christmases at home, when he and Nelly were little chubs together, and hung up their stockings regularly every Christmas eve.

Now, pours the bird that haunts the eve The earliest song of love, Now in the hearttheir fountainheave The waves that murmur love.

"Swift as meteors glide aslope a summer eve.

well I know this mournful eve

"To offer you this little gift, Dear Portia, now we crave your leave, And let it have the grace to lift Our hearts to yours this Christmas eve.

" He knew that she referred to her lover, who had been lost in an avalanche the eve before their wedding morning.

'Solemn twilight advances over the valley; the woods on the opposite heights fling their long shadows over the green of the meadow; around us are the tents of the continental host, the suppressed bustle of the camp, the hurried tramp of the soldiers to and fro among the tents, the stillness and silence that marks the eve of battle.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL It chanced upon the merry merry Christmas eve, I went sighing past the church across the moorland dreary 'Oh! never sin and want and woe this earth will leave, And the bells but mock the wailing round, they sing so cheery.

Root-beer had been Mitchell's main intoxicant heretofore, but as he and the noisy Miss Dunlap sipped the effervescing wine over their ice-cream, they pledged themselves to enjoy Monday evenings together, and she told him, frankly: "Mitch, you're the nickel-plated entertainer, and I'll never miss another Monday eve unless I'm in the shops or the round-house.

It was still, over there the last day of the old year, while the rest of the world was commencing the new one; and this state of things continued till the close of 1844, when it was resolved, with the approval of the archbishop, to pass over New Year's eve for once altogether.

"And pray, Sanpeur," she said one eve to him, When they were at a feast at Camelot, "Why is your life so lone and incomplete, When any lovely maiden of the court Would follow you most gladly at your call?"

What a sweet little note I'll receive In acknowledgment of the verses I sent her St. Valentine's eve.

For it befell in that pleasant summer time, "when small birds sing and shaughs are green," that Thurnall started, one bright Sunday eve, to see a sick child at an upland farm, some few miles from the town.