...notes sing, They to each other call. From the dark valley comes a bird, And seeks the lofty tree. fing goes its voice, and thus it cries, " Companion, come...messengers I straightway send, And what is needed buy. •"l I beat the drums, and in the dance Lead joyously the train. Oh ! good it is, when falls the chance....

...shows. The loss of kindly feeling oft The dishes stand in rows. The guests are here ; no vacant seat From slightest things shall grow, Where all the fare...fierce may glow. My store of spirits is well strained. I beat tlie drums, and in the dance Lead joyously the train. Oh ! good it is, when falls the chance,...

...given is strange. The writer probably had in his mind the lines of the Shih, II, i, ode 5. 3 : — ' The loss of kindly feeling oft From slightest things...fare is dry and spare, Resentments fierce may glow.' But what is allowable, good even, in poetry, is out of place in this treatise. 8 Contention on a great...