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The coming house will surely be a brick one, but before it comes there will be plenty of work for the carpenters, and I shall not be at all surprised if you finally decide to build of wood. From Mrs. John. MR. ARCHITECT: Dear Sir, Yesterday afternoon Sister Jane and I went out after May-flowers.
The old gentleman plucked May-flowers for a moment. "It means, if I remember rightly, 'a defender of his kindred. It is a good Anglo-Saxon name." "What does my name mean?" Kirk asked. The Maestro laughed. "Yours is not a given name," he said. "It has no meaning. But you mean much to me." He caught Kirk suddenly in a breathless embrace, from which he released him almost at once, with an apology.
Stretch up your white arms towards me, Climb and never despair; Come! the blue sky is above you, Sunlight and soft warm air. Shake off the sleep from your eyelids, Work in the darkness awhile, Trust in the light that's above you, Win your way up to its smile. Ah! do you know how the May-flowers, Down on the shore of the lake. Are whispering, one to another, All in the silence, "Awake!"
The village clock struck one. The distant call of a hunting owl, "Qu-wheek, qu-wheek!" sounded through the grave stillness of this last night of May. The moon at her curve's summit floated at peace on the blue surface of the sky, a great closed water-lily. And Martin saw through the trees scimitar-shaped reeds clustering black along the pool's shore. All about him the may-flowers were alight.
We are come now, thank God, again to its most charming chapter. The violets and the may-flowers are as its superscriptions and its vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us when we open again at these pages in the book of life." "We find fault with the poor, particularly with the little ones among them, when they loiter about the streets and beg.
When the little girl reached the house Larry had not yet come in, and the flowers had not been renewed that day. "I'll surprise him," she said to herself. "How pleased he will be to see this nice little bouquet!" She took the vase, threw away the withered violets it contained, replaced them with the May-flowers, and put it back.
She gathered snowdrops, "the first pale blossoms of the unripened year," and May-flowers, pink and white, like sea-shells, or like "cream-candy," as Prudy said. These soft little blossoms blushed so sweetly on the same leaf with such old experienced leaves! Susy said, "it made her think of little bits of children who hadn't any mother, and lived with their grandparents."
He drew it forth, and read the blessed name of Hermione, and the city beneath him vanished away, and the air grew fragrant as with the breath of May-flowers, and a light streamed through the shadowy forest and gleamed upon the lake; and the Student Hieronymus pressed the dear name to his lips and exclaimed with streaming eyes; 'O, scorn me as thou wilt, still, still will I love thee; and thy name shall irradiate the gloom of my life, and make the waters of Oblivion smile! And the name was no longer Hermione, but was changed to Mary; and the Student Hieronymus is lying at your feet!
Then the fleet would sidle towards the island and there would be the fresh, spring odor of damp, uncovered mold, with a vague suggestiveness of violets and May-flowers and ferns bursting with a rush through the black clods.
Phil, quite overcome, collapsed into the nearest chair, Kirk, May-flowers and all, and it was there that Ken found them, rapturously embracing each other, the May Queen bewitchingly pretty with her wreath over one ear. "I didn't make it up," Kirk said, at supper. "The Maestro did or at least he said the Folk taught him one like it. I can't remember the thanking one he sang before the feast.
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