...rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea ; My heart is gladder than all these, Because mv love has come to me. Raise me a dais of silk and down, Hang...birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI. 499 THE LAW OF RIFLE VOLUNTEER CORPS. BY JM LUDLOW, I SUPPOSE no body of men...

...rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea ; My heart is gladder than all these, Because mv love lias come to me. Raise me a dais of silk and down, Hang...birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI. 498 THE LAW OF RIFLE VOLUOTEER CORPS. BY J. 1C. LUDLOW, I SUPPOSE no body of...

...me a dais of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves, and pomegranates, Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves, and...birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. REMEMBER. BOHNET. REMEMBER me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can...

...me a dais of silk and down ; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves, and pomegranates, Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves, and...birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. REMEMBER. 80HNET. REMEMBER me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land ; When you can...

...and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks witli a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes,...rarely, indeed, that the poet strikes so jubilant a note as-this. Her customary music is sad, often poignantly sad. Her lyrics have that desiderium, that obstinate...

...peacocks with a hundred eyes ; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves, and silver fleurs-de-lya ; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.' There is no posing for effect whatever, no straining of materials to meet a prescribed end ; but it...

...is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickest fruit ; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea ; My heart is gladder...birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. Christina Rossetti. CLXXXIV. LOVES RETURN. THESE MANY YEARS. THESE many years since we began to be,...

...come to me. Raise me a dais of silk and down ; Hang it with vair and purple dyes ; Carve it in dovesf and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes...silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life A BRIDE SONG. '"THROUGH the vales to my love ! To the happy small nest of home Green from basement...

...tender — oh ! As daylight when it melts in evening seas, The waves all dark with slumber. Barry Co RAISE me a dais of silk and down ; Hang it with vair...fleurs-de-lys ; Because the birthday of my life Is come, mv love is come to me ! Christina December 17th. December 18th. December 20th. I LOVE snow, and all...

...is like an apple-tree Whose boughs arc bent with thickset fruit ; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea — My heart is gladder...birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me. SING NO SAD SONGS FOR ME. WHEN I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me ; Plant thou no roses...