My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky, So was it when my life began So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die.

God set the rainbow in the cloud, for a token.

Whether man had ever seen a rainbow before.

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.

At half-past two o'clock the spectacle changed to darkness, which, on dispersing, displayed a luminous rainbow in the zenith of the heavens and round the ridge of darkness that overhung the southern portion of the country.

It threw little rainbows of spray in the air; he blinked at them, his eyes half closed.

The following passage in reference to this tour may be selected as a specimen of his prose description, and of the ideas of mountaineering before the days of the Alpine Club: "Before ascending the mountain, went to the torrent again, the sun upon it forming a rainbow of the lower part, of all colours but principally purple and gold, the bow moving as you move.

" BOOK III CHAPTER XII One Sunday afternoon, as the sun was making rainbows in the cloud of spray thrown from the fountain in Kew Gardens, Sholto Douglas appeared there amongst the promenaders on the banks of the pond.

Suspended by a cord from the ceiling in the centre of this room was a glass ball, filled with water, used by Mr. Mitchell in his experiments on polarization of light, flashing its dancing rainbows about the room.

It looks like it, but no carrot split along its length ever brought to light such rainbows as glint along these.

Nay, fold your arms, beloved Friends, Above the hearts that vainly beat! Or catch the rainbow where it bends, And find your darling at its feet; Or fix the fountain's varying shape, The sunset-cloud's elusive dye, The speech of winds that round the cape Make music to the sea and sky: So may you summon from the air

Where can he lie concealed?Gentle sir, my lord, most noble stranger, where might we hope to hide the rainbow, supposing it in danger? PATOU There by the bench with the beehives stands my green cottage, very much at your service.

Meredith is the novelist of men and women in the world of learning, of letters, and of politics; he is the satirist of social shams; and he is the sparkling epigrammatist; but he is also the optimist with the sane and vigorous message for his generation, and the realist who keeps a genuine rainbow of idealism in his sky.

The six bridesmaids wore gowns which matched the tulle rainbow and they carried pink roses.

" "Iris is a word that means rainbow, which as you know is a belt of beautiful colors, made by the sun shining through rain.

The usual green of potted ferns and palms formed the background of decorations, but over the rounded archway which opened into a small alcove a "rainbow" of tullerose, pale pink, yellow, green, blue, and lavenderwas arranged.

We observed the same constellation very high when we were at the island of St Thomas; and remarked that the moon, after rain, produces a rainbow similar to that occasioned by the sun during the day, except that the colours were dim and ill-defined.

Each lesson in mental philosophy opened up some mystery of our immortal nature, and seemed to bring us nearer the horizon of absolute truth, which again receded as we advanced, and left us, like children pursuing the rainbow, to resume the chase.

" "Our dear Miss Diana has learned that 'we must sit in the sunshine if we would reflect the rainbow,'" said Aunt Marthe in her low tones.

it is sunset, the sky becomes cloudy over Södermalm, the grey sky becomes darker and darkera pitch-dark groundand on it rests a double rainbow.

Do you not see now what a comfortwhat a spring of hope, and courage, and peace of mind, and patient industryit must have been to the men of old time to be told, by this story of the flood, that the God who sends the flood sends the rainbow also?

She explained that the glass rods on the chandeliers were prisms that showed the whole rainbow when you held them in front of a light, and she asked him eagerly if he had been invited to come again.

It would be like attempting to paint a sun beam or doing what no painter has ever done, sketch a rainbow.

Such things are represented on these walls, while from meditating on conjugial love, its mutual, successive, and simultaneous union, we view with eager attention the rainbows which are there painted."

He had been wandering about examining the china vases and admiring the little rainbows which sunshine struck out from the cut-glass borders of the mirrors.