" ~The Disappointed Lover~ Where grow the willows near the eastern gate, And 'neath their leafy shade we could recline, She said at evening she would me await, And brightly now I see the day-star shine!

He wore no willow; he lost no weight.

Twice a year, in the time of white butterflies and again when young quail ran neck and neck in the chaparral, Seyavi cut willows for basketry by the creek where it wound toward the river against the sun and sucking winds.

"Ssshhh, ssshhh," whispered the young willows, "what will become of us?

By their sides ought to be planted willows and poplars, and alders of half a dozen kinds, but are not yet.

He lay 'neath shady willows within a leafy bower; before him a brook ran leaping to the sunshine and filling the warm, stilly air with its merry chatter and soft, laughing noises, while beyond the rippling water the bank sloped steeply upward to the green silence of the woods.

On the banks of the still waters of peace, 'neath the willows, whose tears are of innocence, frisk the tender lambs, who taste only of the sweets of the green pasture:"I shall see what old ocean is made of."

Occasionally a stray puff of wind set the willows shivering about us, but apart from this not very welcome sound a deep and depressing silence reigned, broken only by the gurgling of the river and the humming in the air overhead.

It seemed to increase with the darkness, howling overhead and shaking the willows round us like straws.

When ye were sleeping on your pillows, Dreamt ye aught o' our puir fellows, Darkling as they face the billows, A' to fill our woven willows.

"I got to start explorin' the willows pretty soon.

The poor man then went ahead, and at the forks he found a willow twig stuck in the ground, pointing to the left hand trail.

As the pure kiss of greening willow wands Against the intense pale blue Of this sweet boundless overarching waste.

The grease soaked into these branches, so, even to-day if you hold red willow over a fire, you will see the grease on the bark.

I was walking one dark night on the bank of the river near Ambialet, when a glare of lurid light suddenly shot up from the water some distance in front of me, illuminating the willows, and even the black woods, on each side of the gorge.

" That Shakespeare included the willow in his forest scenery is certain, from another passage in the same play: "West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom.

The aphis that infests the willow is the largest of the tribe, and the branches and stems of the tree are often blackened by the honey-dew that falls upon them.

" "How'll you know when he leaves the willows?" Whistling Dan was puzzled.

They all appeared to enter heartily into the sport, and kept nearing the willows which extended along the bank of the creek, close to the wharf, and Frank and William, watching their opportunity, concealed themselves, and the others ran toward the house.

He was a young man, tall and gaunt, and stood back a little way from his canvas with paint-brush held at a slope, while across it he studied the subject of his picturea grey bridge and the butt-end of a grey building, with a sign-board overtopping the autumnal willows.

] "'Aged or infirm people and women and children can earn money by peeling willows at so much per bundle.

In casting his eyes all round in search of a passage, he perceived an old willow half thrown across the stream.

I released the willow that had moored us, but I persisted.

The olive tree, tho' a most useful, is not an ornamental one, as it resembles a willow or osier in its trunk and in the colour of its leaves.

The chaffy scales of the calyx in Xeranthemum, and in a species of Dianthus, and the glume in some alpine grasses, and the scales of the ament in the salix rosea, rose willow, grow into leaves; and produce other kinds of monsters.