...certainly," said Challoner, turning towards them. " I agree with what Longfellow says somewhere, — " ' Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One...golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.' " But, Romaine, I want to talk to you about a more serious matter than flowers; nothing less than a...

...flower-loved England ! Flower whose hedge-side gaze IB like an infant's ! " And another poet tells ns of " Flowers so blue and golden, Stars that in earth's firmament do shine. And the poet, faithful and all-seeing, Sees alike in stars and flowers a part Of the self-same universal...

...and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies. I'ttered not, yet comprehended, Is the spirit's voiceless prayer....castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and Stars they are, wherein we read our history, As astrologers and seers of eld ; Yet not wrapped about...

...thy brow, like David of old ; weak in thyself, but strong in thy Lord. CHAPTER III. BOSA'S EOUQUET. Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One...golden, ' Stars that in earth's firmament do shine.' left Rosa, the morning after her uncle's arrival, just opening her eyes to find the merry sunbeams...

...contributions, but cannot conclude without adding the beautiful lines of Longfellow, the American poet, on flowers. Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth on the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so fair and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament...

...valley, money, soliloquy. 12. Point out verbs in the passage that are also nouns. -••»' III. ' Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One...golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.' — LONGFELLOW. 1. Give the structural analysis — that is, tell the kind of sentence ; the number...

...to look and pray For a glimpse of that dear country That lies so far away.' IX. SEPTEMBER. of the ' Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One...by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers so bright and golden, Stars that in earth's firmament do shine. Wondrous truths, and manifold as wondrous,...

...langnage qnaint and oUen, Onn who dwftieth hy the eastied Rhine, When he ealled the flowers so hlne and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine: — Stars they are, wherein we read onr history, ' As astrologers und seers of eld i Yet not wrapped ahont with awfnl mystery, Like the...

...delicious. Such a prolusion of flowers ! It reminded me of those exquisite lines by Longfellow : — *' Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the caslled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do...

...glories of yellow calceolarias, scarlet geraniums, petunias, salvias, heliotropes, and others of ' the flowers so blue and golden ; stars that in earth's firmament do shine.' A more delightful lounge for the invalid can hardly be found anywhere. So skilfully are the groups...