...of writing a ballad which no one was ever going to sing, and which no one was even expected to sing. "Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen? Today...Mother, Three days today, between Hell and Heaven /) So wrote Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and got a just piece of criticism back from H. Duff Traill. "Why...

...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 purple blossom is trodden into the ground. Sister Helen TT THY did you melt your waxen man, VV Sister Helen? Today is the third since you began."...Mother, Three days today, between Hell and Heaven!) 2163 "But if you have done your work aright, Sister Helen, You'll let me play, for you said I might."...

...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...time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother.' 5 (0 Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven /) 'But if you have done your...

...Stand round her image side by side, Like tombs of pilgrims that have died About the Holy Sepulchre. ated by, A corse between the houses high, Silent into Camelot. (0 Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven 1) " But if you have done your work...

...space at my disposal will enable me to quote the opening and closing stanzas only. 620 SISTEK HELBS. ' Why did you melt your waxen man. Sister Helen? To-day...time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother.' (0 Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven .') 1 But if you пате done your...

...pieces of descriptive poetry I ever read. It begins thus : " Why did you melt your waxen man, Slater Helen ? To-day Is the third since you began." " The...time was long, yet the time ran. Little brother." (Oh, Mother, Mary 3f other, Three days to-day, between hett and heaven). The characters are brother...

...descriptive poetry I ever read. It begins thus : " Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen 1 To-day is the third since you began." " The time was long, yet the time ran. Little brother." (Oh, Mother, Mary jtfofter, Titrée days to-day, between liM and heaven). The characters are brother...

...writings on this subject. A powerful narrative follows the well-managed introduction : — " Why did yon melt your waxen man, Sister Helen ? To-day is the third since you began." " The time was long, but the time ran, Little brother." 0 Mother, Mary Mother, Three days to-day, between Hell and Heaven...

...begins to perceive that his sister is concentrating her whole soul upon the melting wax, and asks — " Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Helen? To-day is the third since you began ;" to which she replies — " The time was long, yet the time ran, Little brother." Further : — "...