They consider the lilies and roll into them, and, like lilies, they toil not, for they are impelled by sun-power, as water-wheels by water-power; and when the one has plenty of high-pressure water, the other plenty of sunshine, they hum and quiver alike.

from thy sweet dust shall grow Lilies, upon whose petals will be written "Ave Maria" in characters of gold!

He has had odd skirmishes in his spiritual fold; and will have if he stays in it for ever; but the sheep have a very fair respect for the shepherd, and can "paint the lily" gracefully.

Turning to the Continent, it is customary in Hanover on Whit-Monday to gather the lily of the valley, and at the close of the day there is scarcely a house without a large bouquet, while in Germany the broom is a favourite plant for decorations.

It was hardly strange that men in open insurrection against the king's authority should turn their wrath against one of its conspicuous emblems, consecrated though it was by usage of immemorial antiquity and by many a heroic achievementthe snow-white banner bearing the golden lilies.

Silent stood Christalan And faced their coming, not a trace of fear Or tremor in his bearing, slight and frail In his white doublet, holding in his hand The wayside lilies he forgot to drop, Which to the Lady Agathar shall come, Alas!

But I rubbed the glasses well, and looked at her, and saw a white lily, whose stem was broken, but which was fresh; and luminous, and fragrant, still.

Pure lie the broad-leaved lilies on the tide, With glowing petals in the midst, that rest Like the gold shower on Danae's lovely breast; And the tall rushes cluster on the side.

She had plucked a red lily that grew outside her tent door as she came out, and sat twirling it in her fingers.

By Edison Marshall THE MAN WHO CURSED THE LILIES.

lets of yellow violets a-plenty you shall find, And glorious crimson roses in garlands intertwined; And baskets heaped with lilies the water nymph shall bring White lilies that this morning were mirrored in her spring.

The doctor was thinking out his plans for the next few days, Gilbert was planting a few lilies he had gathered, as was his nightly habit when any flowers were available.

Ovid says that in form the hyacinth resembles a lily, and that its colour is 'purpureus,' or deep red.

Behold the rose, in which the Word was made flesh.[40] Behold the lilies, by whose odour the way of life is tracked.

Pan therefore never doubted Iridion's strange narrative, and, having heard it to the end, observed, "You will find plenty more lilies in Elysium.

Well, sir, he turned the conversation as well as he could, and he took 'em down Love Lane to the water-meadows, and there Master Harry would have drowned himself in half a moment more, a-getting out a water-lily for herbut nothing daunted that boy.

As much as to say: the storm came, and shattered the lily; the storm has now passed away, but the lily will never revive.

She dropped her buckets, the water splashing over in runnels and puddles at her feet, and stooped to smell the lilies.

Just above it, Mrs. King deposited a wreath of white roses, in the centre of which Eulalia timidly laid a white lily.

A simple morning dress of pink delise, edged with white, set off her light figure to a charm; her snowy collar fastened with a cross, and taking a lily of the valley from the mysterious bouquet, she placed it in her hair, and half-hesitating, lest Winnie had been playing off one of her mischievous tricks, she descended to the drawing-room.

Dear heart, what are you doing in this twilight's purple splendor, Do you tend your dewy flowers with fingers white and slender, Heavy, odor-laden branches in blessing bent above you, Fond lilies kneeling at your feet, winds murmuring they love you?

Farther than either of these have come the lilies that the Chinese coolies cultivate in adjacent mud holes for their foodful bulbs.

One sign was the first sight of the summer steamer going across the bay; another was May eve, when these island-fellows light big gorse fires all over the mountains, and throw yellow marsh-lilies at their doors to keep off the fairies.

"Do you want some lilies?" asked John.

Here there was no disputing the fact, but as the trunk was not worth five livres, the Commissaries contented themselves with erasing the lilies; but the unfortunate clock, being worth twelve hundred, was, notwithstanding its trefoil, carried off by themselves, for they would not trust the porters with so precious a load.