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POETRY

... And left a golden stain. Hedge-rows are fair (Fringing old lanes-round groen and cotted lones) With hip and haw, the blackberry and sloe; Lovely the moon, Vwith nright glowers everywhere. Sweet the new song of redbroast waltbling low. oc''rOlEfl. The ...

THE AUTUMN ROBIN

... flocking birds to slay: Yet shohld'st thou ?? the danger run, He turns the tube away. Tihe gipey boy, who seeks in glee Blackberries for a dainty meal, Laughs loud m~l first beholding thea, When called, so near his precunce steal. ?? surely thinks thou ...

SELECTED

... is ?? IrI *b Il ,riul tiie ox-lill shout ?? the loser etemc- r; ?? .sil,,irh with the hlrvthorn tree 'I h -lly tiel tbo blackberry; All , 'zit'i ittl'l ilr ever Lreud .el tire thrusilh and lirirret's song, ri !lter of a scrwl hlired ?? thle' the btranclhes ...

POETRY

... morning mist and evening haze (Unlike this cold gray rime) Seemed woven warm of golden air- when I was in my prime. And blackberries-so mawkish now- Were finely fiavoubd then; And nuts-such reddening clusters ripe I ne'er shall pull again. Nor strawberries ...

Poetry

... forget The least or thy sweet trifles I The window vines that clamber yet, Whose bloom the bee still rifles I The roadside blackberries growing ripe, And in the woods the Indian-pipe? Happy the man who fills his field, Content with rustic labour I Earth does ...

ART NOTES

... At the sale of the pi5b of Mr. ry of f 2e id, of Brighton, last week, at Crlrstz sane and at well-known works appeared. Blackberry . e -Gati, by Gorge Mason, AURA, was, secured by Mcsz ?? for £61480, who A of intend to engrave it T4e Rjght of Way,'> ...

SELECTED

... Green clusters of the wilding grape, t Climber of Oaks! hang hi gh in air, ai And seedy fruit, of oblong shape, The rough blackberry bushes bear; The rauk cohosh wears snowy plumes, The peppermuint obscurely blooms In hollows dark aiid wet; Red beads the ...

GOSSIP WITH THE CHILDREN

... silence, you may be sure. It was autumn,' and the blackberries were ripe. Now and then they came across a black- berry bush, and stopped to gather the berries before they went on. But as they met many a blackberry bush, and had a dispute over each one that they ...

VARIETIES

... Scotland. Tanning.-A Mr. Patterson, of Dublin, has taken out a pa- tent for tanning from the roots, stems, and branches of the blackberry bush, obtained in the spring; and, after preparation, lie states, quite equal to oak-bark. During the lust three weeks the ...

FASHIONS FOR FEBRUARY

... with black lace. The front has a half wreath of brown heath, and velvet leaves; in the inside the same flowers mixed with blackberries. Blond cap and green satin strings. A felt-coloured velvet bonnet had the curtain of blue velvet and white lace ; a torsade ...

ART NOTES

... guineas :- Old Cottagis, Pinner, 60, Mars. Allinghamn; IMinehead, 210, Copley L Fielding; ?? Bridge, 32, David Cox; Blackberry Gatherers, 43, Birket Foster; Midesnumer's Night's Dream, 120, B. t Riviere, RBA.; Hunrerford Marsh, 60, s Thorne Waite; ...

SONG OF THE GERMAN WEAVER

... of the most touchung and beautiful of the German popular stories:- FOItM THE MOUNTAINS OF SILESIA. Green grow the budding blackberry hedges; What oyl a violet meets my quest! The blacbird seeks the last year's sedges, The chaffinch also builds her nest ...