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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
Grandmothers Wish.

(Sldney Dayre in The Independently
IF were a fairy-oh, my dears!'
Grandmother said, almost with tears,
ION Christmas Eve / would stand and
hold
A beautiful, shining wand OF gold;
And oh what Joys
For girls and boys
Came showeTing down In books and toys;
Then. as you saw the love gifts fall.
How you would shout. you darlings all!
How, you would dance with glee-oh.
how"
why. Grandmother. dear. we do that
now"
'But think. my beauties, II you could see
A shining. glittering Christmas tree
Springing up from the very ground
When Grandmother waved her wand
around;
All! II would be
A sight to see
Your bonny bright eyes alight with glee.
And then-and then-just a little hush
And straight to my arms you all would
rush.
How you would kiss and clasp me tight
Sweet caresses and dear delight
Adding to all the Christmas cheer
Loving me So"
why. Grandmother, dear,
IL you were a fairy ten times DER
How could we love you, love you more?"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23

than this victor in blue was to tho sick
soldier In tattered gray.
Down at the Hanover place the walls
of the house were standings shattered
reminder OF the battles fought around
II. During fathers Illness Colonel Wy
choff had the house repaired. Often and
often he took us with him for the ten
mile drive down there. where nanny
and Uncle Bob and the black mule were
already mt work: and Christmas saw tho
scattered family once more in the hos
pitsbIe mansion. which had assumed Its
oldtime comfort.
did our romance end hereT' some OF
you are asking. Not quite. When your
Aunt Bella and I were girls OF Is, at
boarding school. In Richmond. 'our pri-
soner' came with his beautiful bride to
the city. We had holiday out, you may
be sure. and were feted and admired until
our glddy heads were fairly turned; but
Lieutenant wychofr said he would like
TO transform us-but for one single hour
to the poorly-clad little girls who had
come, as he phrased II. to his prison
window "as the raven came to Elijah"
INDIA BARTON HAYS.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
A Carol.
(Charles Kingsley

1t CHANGED upon the merry, merry Christ
mas-eye
went signing past the church, across
the moorand dreary-
"Oh! never sin and want and woe this
earth will leave.
And the bells but mock the wailing
round, they sing so CHEEKY.
How long. o Lord! how long before Thou
come again?
Still in cellar. and In garnet. and on
moorland dreary
The orphans moan and widows weep, and
poor men toll In vain,
Till the earth Is sick OF hope deferred,
though Christmas-bells be CHEEKY"
Then arose joyous clamor from the wild
TOWN on the mere.
Beneath the stars. across the snow, like
clear bells ringing,
And a voice within cried: Listen! Christ
mas carols even here!
Though thou be dumb, yet DER their
work the stars and SHOWS are sing
ing.
Blind i live. love. reign; and all the
nations through
With the thundsf OF my judgment even
now are ringing
Do thou fulfill thy work, but as you wild
fowl do.
Thou wilt heed no less the wail!ng yet
hear through 1t angels singing"
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
Christmas Eve Under the Snow.

Robert Collyer)
II was Christmas-eve In the year fourteen,
And as ancient dalesmen used to tell,
The widest winter they ever had seen,
With the snow lying deep on moor and
fell.
When Wagner John got out his team,
Smiler and Whitefoot, Duke and Gray.
With the light in his eyes or young
mans dream,
AS ne thought of his wedding on New
Years day.
To Ruth the maid with the bonnie brown
hair.
And eyes OF the deepest, sunniest blue.
Modest and winsome, and wondrous fair.
And true to her troth, for her heart was
true.
"Thou's surely not goingr shouted mine
host;
"Thou'ii be lost in the drift. as sure as
thou's born;
Thy lass winnot be wed WI ghost.
And that's what thou'll be on Christ
mas-morn.
"Its eleven long miles from Skipton toon
To Blueberg hooses e Washburn dale
Thou had better turn back and sit thee
And comfort thy heart WI a drop O.
good ale"
But y what cares the lover for storm Or
Or peril OF death on the haggard way?
lift,
And the joys in his heart turns Deem
Der to May.
But the wind from the north brings a
deadly chill
Creeping into his heart, and the drifts
are deep
Where the thick of the storm strikes
Blueberg HILL
He is weary. and falls in n pleasant
rrx-' Ii .vTUpr~Evrr-n y T7w-rT Fv
And dreams he is walking by washburn
Walking with Ruth on a summers day,
Singing that song to his bonnie bride.
His own wife now forever and aye.
Now read me this riddle, how Ruth should
That song of a heart in the clutch of
doom
Steal on her ear. distinct and clear.
AS IL her lover was in the room.
And read me this riddle. how Ruth should
AS She bounds to throw open the heavy
That her lover was lost in the drifting
snow.
Dying or dead, on the great wild moor.
Help! helpl' Lost! lost!'
Rings through the night as she PUSHES
away,
Stumbling, blinded, and tempest-tossed,
Straight to the drift where her lover
lay.
And swift they leap after into the night,
Into the drifts by Blueberg Hill.
Ridsdale and Robinson. each with light,
To find her there holding him white and
still.
may, nay. they were wedr the dalesman
cried,
"By Parson Carmalt o. New-Years
day:
Bless yel Ruth were me great-graat grand
sire's bride
And Master FARMLAND gave her away"
"But how did she find him under the
SNOWY
They cried. with a laughter touched
with tears.
NAY. lads" he said, softly, 1--WE never
can know
No, not If we live hundred years."
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
Holiday Attentions.

(Atlanta Consutution)
my DEAR you're looking very tired to-
night"
THAT means Christmas cloak.)
"Tll get your slippers and your pipe-a
light"
CHATS business, and no JokeD
"Youll kin yourself IL you keep working
so!'
Chat speech IL bound to win)
Darling. could not live II you should
go!''
Chat means a diamond pin.)
"rve had the girl make just the incest
tea!'
CMy head has fallen backD
THAT kind you liked best when you mar
ried me''
CMercy! fur-trimmed sacqueD
"Poor. tired dear! I'll rub your head for
you'll"
On mute despair look.)
"When go shopping I'll be tired, too!'
Chat means-my pocketbookD
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
Under the Mistletoe.

Truth)
The girl from Philadelphia
In some things is not slow.
she says; Good gracious me! Was
Beneath that mistletoe?"
The st. Louis girl a startled look
AT once begins 10 wear,
AS she exclaims: How very strange!
l didn't know twas there"
The San Francisco maid demurs
Is calm as calm can be.
As. with blssful smile she says:
You've caught right on, see!'
The Boston girl removes her specs,
Her classic face sedate,
And, as she looks around, she says:
"fll take a chair and walt"
The Gotham maiden lifts herself
Upon a tiny toe,
Remarking, as she takes one more:
tits English. don't you known
But better still. the Lakeside girl,
Another plan, instead
or standing just beneath. she tries
She wears II on her head!
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
The Poet at Christmas.

The Poet at Christmas.
Uudge)
She spoke OF Santa Claus, alacki
II made me feel upon the rack.
Shed like. she said. sealskin sacque.
Or else iockst
] felt the hot blood upward rush
Ut was not 10 when I was fiush):
What could do but sit and blush,
With empty pocket?
All, could she know the poets woes,
who sings Ia voice. but lives in prose,
Shed choose some cheaper thing than
those
To MI her stocking.
But, after all. I'll not complain;
Man cannot quite HIS fate ordain;
Come here my dear old watch and chain;
Wen 50 a-hocktng.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
Tho Cook q Treas urer.
New York WeeklvN

Mr.. Newedd: What No cook-stove in the
house? gave you money to buy one.
Mrs. Newedd: Yes. my love. but found
I hadn't enough 10 buy n stove and hire
a cook, too. so let the stove go. But
the cook is here. and she's n treasure
She has just gone out to get US some
crackers and cheese.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
Charge of tho shopping Bris.d.

Half a block, half a block,
Half a block onward;
All on the bargain hunt
Go the s'teen hundred.
Forward the Shop Brigade!
Charge double pricer' he said;
Into the janboree
Go the s'teen hundred.
Statesmen to the right OF them,
Shopgirls to the left of them.
Cashboys In front OF them.
voliey'd and Numbered.
Like a Yale rush. pell-mell,
Boldly they plunge and wen
Into the jaws OF Death,
Into the shoppers hell
Dash the Steen hundred.
Torn clothes and crumpled hair.
Pockets picked everywhere.
Raising Od Harry there.
All playing Santa Claus,
Patience euTpaaetng.
Honor the charge thsy madsi
Honor the Shop Brigade!
Who was the fool that said:
"Times VIM b hard. I'm 'fraidrs
Guess he vaa ''xAAaina."
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
Useless Inquiry.

adams (Mass.) Freeman)
Johnny" said the teacher. will You
ask your mother II she has a kaleide-
scope?"
well. ma'am," replied the urchin. at
amt no use; H. plain rheumatic she's got.
and know Il
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
A Christmas Lyric.

A Christmas Lyric.
Qadies' Home Journal)
Sweetheart, send my greeting
Across the world Of snow.
Loves tender pledge to break the edge
OF winter winds that blow;
The one word still repeating
The word dared to say.
When oil the hours were sweet with fiow-
ers,
And melody and May.
In these December ashes
That fill the valleys urn.
Now sleeps the hre OF springs desire,
Which get shall wake and burn;
And when once more u flashes
And lights with buds and vine.
Shall you be here with love to cheer
And light this life Of mine?
Across the frosty isthmus
OF winter, white with drifts,
Love. like bird, files with word
TO you who hold his gifts:
Oh, AZ the dawn OF Christmas,
When he returns to me,
Bid him TO sing OF such . spring.
And you his song shall bel
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
TIE RICHMOND DIsPATCH-sUNDAY. DECEMBER 2s 1894.

bun, which she had bought with
Ascent script, and my bunch OF late
roses. To the flowers Bella tied q tiny
card, with our names written In FANCY
nourishes. Going home there was
strong debate whether these precious
gifts had not been conhscated. ana we
greatly feared 'our prisoner" had iost
hls bum but on our next visit ne wore
the red roses upon his thin breast
Once we mixed up sense and sentiment'
and struggled him In chunk OF MANI
my's sorghum candy for his cough.
After some weeks the poor prisoner
we so pItied improved; that Is. he looked
better. for no words had been spoken.
For all each knew OF the others IAN
guage. our dialects might have been as
different as our sentiments OF loyalty.
His spare frame was better clothed; an
erect carriage came 20 the slender figure
and kind OF sans souci expression ngfH-
ed the handsome face. as II he and ad-
verse fate had declared truce. Lat
terly, a glad emile from his dark eyes
greeted us. and one day he laughed out
right as Bella passed with couple or
sweet potatoes, coneplcuously displayed
which. after some entreaty, our young
surgeon consented to deliver. Il remem-
Der, my dears," said Betty Landon, to
her eager listeners, that Uncle Bob and
the black mule had just come In from
Bonnie Bera and brought us the crap o
taters How we could have lived In
those days Of semi-starvation without
supplies from the home place. I do not
know. Even these sell far short of our
needs. for able bodied servants were often
pressed to work upon the labyrinth
OF breastworks that girded the city. Ana
darker days were at hand. Bella was
taken sick, so we little traitors held a
council of war and decided that l should
walt for Barneys evening and go to the
prison alone.
/ started, but, not meeting Barney, reso-
lutely decided to venture anyhow. NO
thought OF sinking what by this
time had grown from the neat
Of q chlld's generous impulse to
an affectionate sense OF duty, crossed
my small mind. 1 walked on faster tran
usual Yes. he was there. looking anxi-
ously out at the bars-and the sash was
down!
He gave me a quick smile. raised his
white fingers to his lips. and eighty
shook his head, as the beardless N. ID.
came in sight
This was an evening of fatalities. 1
fingered too long, and had taken but n
stranger-roughy grasped my arm.
Not much OF "ole Mis- s" valor. that
had heard so often Wanted, came to her
little namesake then, for l nearly sbrieked
with terror.
what are you doing here?" demanded
the sentinel.
choked back my fears. however, and
was a Yankee for once.
Where is Mr.. Barney?" / asked. Amt
this his evening on?"
Yes" said he. but amt Mr.. Barnes,
and this is no place for you giving me
a grim look as he released my arm.
And II put up the street, and climbed
the hillsde-steps like an Alpine goat!
Once there. we were always safe.
But either the fright or the long. In
sufficient nourishment. or both. told upon
me; for next day l was Ill also.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
ASA SNYDER 4 CO., Architectural Iron Works.

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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
HIS FAYORITE FRUIT.

(Boston C0urier)
what kind OF fruit do you love best?''
He questioned the maiden fair.
"The juicy apple, with rosy cheeks.
or the sweet and luscious pearY'
The gentle maiden smiled and said:
1.-The fruit that pleases me
Better than all the fruits / know
Is the fruit of the Christmas-tree."
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
"FORTY-NINE CENTS"
Gudpel

Merritt: Those were pretty rank cigars
your wife gave you for Christmas.
Cobwigger: l should say so. They made
me sick before l tried them.
Merritt: How was that?
Cobwigger: She forgot TO rub the price
off the bottom OF the box.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
VIII
rhs shepherds on the lawn,

The shepherds on the lawn,
or ere the point OF dawn.
Sat simply chatting in a rustic row;
Full little thought they than
That the mighty Pan a.
Was kindly come 10 live with them be-
perbans their loves. or else their sheep.
WAS ali that did their silly thoughts so
busy keep.
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VII.
And. though the shady gloom

And, though the shady gloom
Had given day her room,
The sun himself withheld It's wonted
speed.
And hid his head for shame.
As his inferior fame
should need:
JJe saw a greater Sun appear
frhan his bright throne or burning axletree
could bear.
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XXVII.
But seei the Virgin blest

But sect the Virgin blest
Hath laid her Babe to rest.
Time is our tedious song should here
have ending:
Heavens youngest-teemed star
Hath fx'd her polish'd car,
Her sleeping Lord with handmade lamp
attending;
And all about the courtly stable
Bright-harness'd angels sit in order SER
viceable
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
The Judges Christmas Philosophy.

q. NJ Gregory in Judge)
Oh parent, fill the flowing sock
Until II doth run over.
He is the wisest man who keeps the heart
OF boyS
Let him labor end plan, but hold to his
power for JOY;
Let him smile at his pain. and have In his
heart no guile,
For the heart of bow is gain, and the
lips were made to smile.
II.
What shall the long years give US that
shall not pass away2
Wealth and honors shall leave us-they
are ours for but a day.
Peril and care and trouble, they shall not
always annoy;
We shall count the good things double IL
we have the heart OF boy.
III.
Hang up the stocking OF faith, and II shall
be filled with cheer
Though grief and its wrath attend US
through every month of the year
Take the world as II comes, and give II as
good as II brings.
Welcome the years with drums and the
heart OF boy that sings.
".
The wrecks of life are doll with the saw
dust gone from her legs.
A punch with his nose smashed In and a
Judy off her pegs
What of the hobbies we rode in the days
that are far away?
The bugle-blast of boy in the wanton-
ness OF play.
V.
Come thou Hero. and fiddle while your
Rome goes down in a blaze.
Draw your pleasantest pictures from the
old-time happy days.
Sit In memory's ashes, in the wreck Of
your broken toys,
And laugh that you're living and loving,
with the heart of one of the boys.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
Within that province Gar away

Within that province far away
Went plodding home weary boor;
A streak of light before him lay.
Fallen through half-shut stable-door.
Across his path. He passed, for naught
Told what was going on within:
How keen the stars, his only thought
The air. how calm, and cold, and thin,
In the solemn midnight.
Centuries ago.
Oh, strange indifference! low and high
Drowsed over common joys and cares;
The earth was still, but knew not why;
The world was listening. unawares.
How calm q moment may precede
One that shall thrill the world forever!
To that still moment, none would heed,
Mans doom was linked no more TO
sever,
In the solemn midnight,
Centuries ago.
II Is the calm and solemn night!
A thousand bells ring out, and throw
Their joyous peals abroad, and smite
The darkness, charmed and holy now!
The night that erst no name had worn,
To 1t happy name Is given;
For in that stable lay. newborn,
The peaceful Prince Of earth and
Heaven,
In the solemn midnight,
Centuries ago.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23

When such music sweet
Their hearts and oars did greet
AS never was by mortal finger strook,
Divnely- warbied voice
Answering the stringed noise,
AS all their soulh in bhssful rapture
took.
With thousand echoes still prolongs each
heavenly close.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23

Ring out, ye crystal spheres!
Once bless our human ears.
IL ye have power 10 touch our senses
50.
And let your silver chime
Move in melodious time,
And let the bass OF Heavens deep organ
blow.
And with your ninefold harmony
Make up full consort to the angelic SYM
phony.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
A PROBATION.
(JudQe)

When you give presents recollect-
II may to your advantage prove
Before you send them don't neglect
The tell-tale price-marks TO remove.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
XVI.

So when the SUN in bed.
Curtain'd with cloudy red.
Pillows his chin upon an Orient wave,
The focking shadows pale
Troop 10 the internal jail.
Each fetter'd ghost slips to his severa
grave.
And the yellow-skirted fays
Fly after the nght-steeds. leaving thei
moon-lovd maze.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23

No war or battles sound
Wa. heard the world around; IT.. m
The idle spear and shield were hign up
hung,
The hooked chariot stood
Inrtaind with hostile pioou' ,,o ornAd
Ana Iings sat stu with an awful eye,
As II they surely knew their soVrah Loru
was by.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23

The stars with deep amaze
stand fxd in steadfast gaze, -
Bending one way their precious innu-
ence, 49,.
Nnd will not take their flight,
For all the morning light. 49,.
Iut in their glimmering orbs did glow
ijntil their Lord himself bespake ana DID
them so.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23

I'm, He her fears TO cease
, do~n the msek-syed Peace;
she crown'd with olive green came
softly sliding
Down through the turning sphere
His ready harbinger, ,,. o,o,,ds
nrd waving wide her myrtle wand.
she strikes a universal peace through std
and land
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
eu, ne,ceful was the night

Su. peaceful was the night
Wherein the Prince Of Light =,
His reign of peace upon the eA''h oe-
gan. 1T.
Hhe winds Of wonder whist
smoothly the waters hss'd, II, $500
Whispering new Joys 10 the mild ocean,
who now hath quite forgot 70 raw ,ha
charmed wave.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
IN THE AIR.
nnnIx

IN THE MN.
Puckl
Whate'er you have; whate'er you lack;
How great or small your store
One shirt or twenty to your back
This day shall bring you more.
And in your wood-fire's cheerful glow
You'll rub your hands and say:
at is a good old world below,
And this Is Christmas-day!
For you shall lay the ghost Of care.
With holly on its bier.
You need but breathe the Christmas air
To know the day Is here.
Then let your cheerful spirits flow,
And Join the children's play.
1t is good old world below,
And this Is Christmas-day!
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23

Tature that heard such sound
Beneath the hollow round ,,
OF Cynthla's seat the airy region thrill
ing
Now was almost won
TO think her part vas done,
And that her reign had here It's last full
filling;
She knew such harmony alone
Gould hold all Heaven and earth In hap
pier union.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23
POETRY.
The dreadful Judge in middle DIR shall
spread His throne.

II EBtSaa 4atc
XVIII.
And then at last our bliss
| Full and perfect Is,
But now begins; for from this happy
The old Dragon under ground.
| In straiter limits bound,
Not half go far casts his usurped sway.
And. wroth TO see his kingdom fan,
Swinges the scaly horror OF his FOLDED
tall
The oracles are dumb;
No voice or hidcous hum
Runs through the arched roof IN words
deceiving.
Apollo from his shrine
Can no more divine,
With hollow shrek the steep OF Deiphos
No rightly trance or breathed spell
inspires the pale-eyed priest from the
The lonely mountains DER.
And the resounding shore.
a voice OF weeping heard and loud Ia
From haunted spring and dale
Edg'd with poplar pale,
The parting Genius is with signing sent;
with fiower-inwoven tresses torn
The Nymphs in twilight shade OF tangled
thickets mourn.
XXI.
In consecrated earth,
And on the holy hearth. =.
The Lars and Iemures moan with mid
night plant
In urns and affairs round,
A drear and dying sound
Affrights the famens at their service
quaint;
And the chin marble seems to sweat.
While each peculiar power foregoes his
wonted seat.
Poor and Baalim
Forsake their temples dim,
with that twice-batterd god OF Pales-
And mooned Ashtaroth.
Heavens queen and mother both.
Now sits not grit with tapers holy
The Lybic Harmon shrinks his horn.
In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded
A Thammuz mourn.
XIII.
And sullen Moloch. fed,
Hath left in shadows dread
His burning idol all of blacklist nue.;
In vain with cymbals' ring
They call the grisly king.
In dismal dance about the furnace
The british gods OF Nile as fast,
Isis and Orus and the dog Anubis, haste.
XIV.
Nor Is Osiris seen
In Memphian grove or green, "a,
Trampling the unshowerd grass with
lowings loud;
Nor can he be at rest
Within his sacred chest:
Nought but profoundest hell can be his
shrOud;
In vain with timbrelrd anthems dark
The sable-stoled sorcerers bear his Wor-
shipp'd ark
He feels from Judahs land
The dreaded Infants hand
The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky
eyne:
Nor all the gods beside
Longer dare abide,
Not Typhon huge ending in snaky Irvine;
Our Babe, to show his Godhead true,
Can in His swaddling bands control the
damned crew.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23

At last surrounds their sight
A globe Of circular light,
That with long beams the shamefacd
Night array'd:
The helmed Cherubim
And sworded Seraphim
Are seen in giittertng ranks with wings
displayd
Earping In loud and solemn quire,
With INEXPENSIVE notes, to heavens
newborn Heir.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-23

such music, as IT'S said.
Before was never made,
But when OF old the Sons OF Morning
sung.
While the Creator great
Ills constellation set
And the well-balancd world on hinges
hung,
And cast the dark foundations deep,
And bid the weltering waves their oozy
channel keep.