...pedantically, called "the renascence of wonder." From the first verse, which was not in the original — " Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day...(O Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day between Ifcll and Heaven !) — the notes of scorn and sorrow, lamentation and loathing, vary and alternate...

...when side by side We've knelt to pray with them that died, My prayer was, ' Show her what I hide ! ' " SISTER HELEN. "WHY did you melt your waxen man, Sister...time ran, Little brother." (O Mother, Mary Mother, T'iree days to-day, bctiacen Hell and Heaven .') " But if you have done your work aright, Sister Helen,...

...Stand round her image side by side, Like tombs of pilgrims that have died About the Holy Sepulchre. SISTER HELEN. ' WHY did you melt your waxen man, Sister...long, yet the time ran, Little brother.' ( O Mother, Alary Mother^ Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven /) * But if you have done your work aright,...

...into Dante Gabriel Rossetti's impressive little poem " Sister Helen," the first stanza of which is : " Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day...Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven !)" to follow, but willing to see and learn, I passively obeyed all the directions of the fortune-teller....

...irape\вúv, TóvS' èv ш тгaтш cгтíßov, a/coç cr^Kyшcr^ç /ca/эSíaç. JOHN F. DAVIES. SISTER HELEN. ' WHY did you melt your waxen man, Sister...time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother.' (O .1 fother, Mary M 'other, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven !) ' But if you have done your...

...him from his play ; and he looks by turns at the fatal fire and at the wintry landscape without. " ' Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day...Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven !) " She bids the child watch from the balcony while she, within, proceeds with her incantation. Presently...

...him from his play ; and he looks by turns at the fatal fire and at the wintry landscape without. " ' Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day...Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven !) " She bids the child watch from the balcony while she, within, proceeds with her incantation. Presently...

...! " the old man murmured, " God — save — the — King ! " he moaned and died. GW THORNBURY. ^s Sister Helen =^ " WHY did you melt your waxen man,...time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother." (0 Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day, bet.ween Hell and Heaven /) " But if you have done your...

...image wasted, was common in Europe in the Middle Ages, and still flourishes in India and elsewhere. " Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day is the third since you began." The answer to this every savage knows. In Egypt, in the period of the later dynasties, a service was performed...

...melted slowly before a fire, the person whom it represents will also dwindle and die in torment. ' " Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day...Mother, Three days to-day between Hell and Heaven !) ' The wondering child, her brother, goes upon the balcony, and thence conveys to her the messages...