Some had passed the meridian of life, the sun of some had reached their noon, while others were climbing up the eastern summit.

what sweet sounds are those, whose accents holy Fill the warm noon with music sad and sweet!

It is rather the east wind, as it blows out of the fogs of Newfoundland, and clasps a clear-eyed wintry noon on the chill bridal couch of a New England ice-quarry.

SAPPHO She lay among the myrtles on the cliff; Above her glared the noon; beneath, the sea.

skat-ing near-ly the whole af-ter-noon, for there was no school this week, and the ice was in fine or-der.

Come, we shepherds, whose blest sight Hath met love's noon in nature's night; Come, lift we up our loftier song, And wake the sun that lies too long.

How was I to get down those smoothly plastered wallsand back again, if necessary? I glanced at my watch; it was already nearing noon, and at any moment food might be brought me.

Among these are: "An Arab Café in the Slums of Cairo," much noticed in the Academy Exhibition of 1895; "Noon at Ramazan," "The Snake-Charmer," "Umbrellas to MendDamascus," and a group of the "Soudanese Friends of Gordon."

The robin is the one That overflows the noon With her cherubic quantity, An April but begun.

What region of spice did not recall the noons when they two had trampled the sweet-fern on wide, high New England pastures, and breathed its intoxicating fragrance?

V. Morns like these we parted; Noons like these she rose, Fluttering first, then firmer, To her fair repose.

And if there were great years of night Before the earth saw noons.

For the first three weeks of this time, the seabreeze was regular from North-West or West-North-West, generally setting in about noon, and lasting the greater part of the night; in the mornings, and until noon, it was mostly calm, or very light winds from the northward.

Our determination might be defended if Washington and Greenwich could be assumed to remain at rest during the experiments, and some argument might even be made in its favor if we could secure any cosmic assurance that the resultant motion of the earth should be the same when Greenwich signalled its noon to Washington and Washington its noon to Greenwich.

We were there on Monday when the clock struck noon.

"Now, Matthew!" said I, "let us match This water's pleasant tune 10 With some old border-song, or catch That suits a summer's noon; "Or of the church-clock and the chimes Sing here beneath the shade, That half-mad thing of witty rhymes 15 Which you last April made!"

[Greek: Os thi noon, on kehinon nohaeseis,]"You will not perceive that, as perceiving a particular thing," say the Chaldean Oracles.

She bore him four sons, and stood by him in all his troubles, brightening the twilight of poverty, adorning that high noon of his glory, when the Pope himself turned to Palestrina, and implored him to reform and rescue the whole music of the Church from its corruptions.

Through that pure virgin-shrine, That sacred veil drawn o'er thy glorious noon, That men might look and live, as glowworms shine, And face the moon, Wise Nicodemus saw such light As made him know his God by night.

By lawn and garden gay; 'Tis play befits the noon Of rosy-girdled June: Who dare frown if heaven shall smile?