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O, could we descend to the regions of despair, whence "the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever;" or, transported on a seraph's wing, rise to listen only for a single moment, to those rapturous sounds which warble from immortal harps, and bespeak infinite felicity with what feelings should we return to this probationary state!
When the leaves began to bud, and the birds to sing their sweet songs of love, and to warble their gentle burdens of gratitude for the return of their beloved spring, our mission would have been successfully terminated.
One of the men was yelling at Petticoat: "Hop into my car, Bill, Don't see yours I'll tote the bride-person you've got there with joy and gladness." Warble looked at the yeller. "Can't quite place me, chick, can you?" he grinned at her. "Well I'm only old Goldwin Leathersham no use for me in the world but to spend money. Want me to spend some on you?
And now gay-plumaged birds of all sorts began to warble in the trees, and with their varied and gladsome notes seemed to welcome and salute the fresh morn that was beginning to show the beauty of her countenance at the gates and balconies of the east, shaking from her locks a profusion of liquid pearls; in which dulcet moisture bathed, the plants, too, seemed to shed and shower down a pearly spray, the willows distilled sweet manna, the fountains laughed, the brooks babbled, the woods rejoiced, and the meadows arrayed themselves in all their glory at her coming.
In spite of these enlivening touches, the conversation was like to suffer another long interruption, when the lieutenant, unwilling to conceal any of his accomplishments that could be displayed in his present situation, offered to regale the company with a song; and, interpreting our silence into a desire of hearing, began to warble a fashionable air the first stanza of which he pronounced thus: "Would you task the moon-tide hair, To yon flagrant beau repair.
Oswald takes the elevated train to Franklin Street, goes over to this building, and awaits opening of that afternoon's session. Looking about the court-room, he sees that same innocent-appearing old chap, still expostulating with his stern captor, who soothes him with the assurance: "Yez will warble a different chune at Sing Sing!"
Now, there's Lotta Munn, the heiress she's more in his line. But Ernest Swayne is devoted to Lotta. I think it will be a real love match like the Trues." "The Trues?" asked Warble, politely. "Yes," and she glanced toward a very devoted looking pair sitting apart from the rest, on a small divan. "They're wonderful! Herman True is the most marvelous husband you ever saw.
And without, all ghastly and ill, Like a man uplift in his shroud, The white white morn is propped on the hill; And adown from the eaves, pointed and chill, The icicles 'gin to glitter; And the birds with a warble short and shrill, Pass by the chamber-window still With a quick uneasy twitter.
And the little birds warble and the little burnie runs, as if neither knew there was a weary world outside, where many a heart, pure as either, grows dumb amidst its singing, and freezes slowly as it flows. Olive walked along by Harold's side in a happy dream.
I am sure I don't know what they will do with them, unless they return them to the backs of the sheep. "As to the article journal the devil! that's a horse of another color. Holy saints! how one has to warble before you can teach these bumpkins a new tune. I have only made sixty-two 'Movements': exactly a hundred less for the whole trip than the shawls in one town.
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