In the cool of eventide, Gracefully festooned with myrtle, In her sampan she would glide Forth to spear the snapping turtle; And her voice was blinding sweet, Piercing as the parrakeet, Fruity as old Manzanilla, With a soupçon of the bleat Of the African gorilla.

She had begun to feel under her shoulders the painful piercing of her wings.

He fixed his piercing though kindly eyes on the man's face.

Winter days are wild and fierce; Rapid gusts each crevice pierce.

And see how FREDERIC spends the day; Behold him rise at dawning light To form his troops for future fight; Thro' the firm ranks his glances pierce, Where discipline, with aspect fierce, And unrelenting breast, is seen Degrading man to a machine; My female heart delights to turn Where GREATNESS seems not quite so stern: Mild on th' IMPERIAL BROW she glows, And lives to soften human woes.

The bindweed roots pierce down Deeper than men do lie, Laid in their dark-shut graves Their slumbering kinsmen by.

From down the canyon Edd sent up his piercing: "Ki Yi!"

whose greatness none can comprehend, Whose boundless goodness does to all extend, Light of all beauty, ocean without ground, That standing, flowestgiving, dost abound... Great ArchitectLord of this universe, That sight is blinded would thy greatness pierce.