... morning mist and evening haze (Unlike this cold grey rhyme), Seem'd woven warm of golden air — When I was in my piime. And blackberries — so mawkish now— Were finely flavoured then ; And nuts — such reddening clusters ripe I ne'er shall pull again. Nor s ...

... thinks of, and she'll make a splendid mull of it, I know. Ay, that she will. Invitations are as cheap and plentiful as blackberries ; everybody has one. The distin- guished thing now is, not to be going, but to be stopping away. Yet, for all that, I would ...

... school, in their leafy retreat, The wild birds ait listening the drops round them beat ; And the boy crouches dose to' the blackberry wall. The swallows alone take the storm on their wing, And, taunting the tree-sheltered labourers, sing. Like pebbles the ...

... she had been, and she said she bad been iv the house ; but one of tbe younger children said she had been out « blagging (blackberry gathering). I bave done this, 1 know it, and am very sorry, very sorry for it. I have nothing more to say. —The Bench : ...

... lad was nearly poisoned last week near the town of Sevenoaks, in Kent, by eating berries of night-shade in mistake for blackberries. On reaching home he appeared in a state of extreme intoxication. This was afterwards followed by great delirium and total ...

... apple and pear trees, laden with fruit, festoons of wild vines bending under the weight of their grapes, shrubs of barberry, blackberry, and dog rose ; in short, everything seems to bo assembled here to do homage to the king of the forest, the lofty pine, ...