ld the kingly Day now leaps
The eastern wall of earth with sword in hand,
Clad in a flowing robe of mellow light.
Like to a king that has regain'd his throne,
He warms his drooping subjects into joy,
That rise rejoiced to do him fealty,
And rules with pomp the universal world.
1828
JOAQUIN MILLER: _Ina,_ Sc. 2.
=Sunset.=
The weary sun hath made a golden set,
And, by the bright track of his fiery car,
Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.
1829
SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act v., Sc. 3.
O the wondrous golden sunset of the blest October day.
1830
JULIA C.R. DORR: _Margery Grey,_ St. 24.
The descending sun
Seems to caress the city that he loves,
And crowns it with the aureole of a saint.
1831
LONGFELLOW: _Michael Angelo,_ Pt. i., 2.
The sun is going down,
And I must see the glory from the hill.
1832
GEORGE ELIOT: _Agatha._
=Sunshine.=
See the gold sunshine patching,
And streaming and streaking across
The gray-green oaks; and catching,
By its soft brown beard, the moss.
1833
BAILEY: _Festus,_ Sc. _The Surface._
As sunshine broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still.
1834
MOORE: _The Fire-Worshippers._
=Surfeit.=
As surfeit is the father of much fast,
So every scope, by the immoderate use,
Turns to restraint.
1835
SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act i., Sc. 3.
=Surprise.=
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
1836
DRYDEN: _Cymon and Iphigenia,_ Line 41.
=Suspense.=
For thee the fates, severely kind, ordain
A cool suspense, from pleasure and from pain.
1837
POPE: _Eloisa to A.,_ Line 249.
=Suspicion.=
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
1838
SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 6.
=Swallow.=
When Autumn scatters his departing gleams,
Warned of approaching Winter, gathered, play
The swallow-people; and tossed wide around
O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift,
The feathered eddy floats; rejoicing once,
Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire.
1839
THOMSON: _Seasons, Autumn,_ Line 836.
=Swans.=
The swan, with arched neck
Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows
Her state with oary feet.
1840
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. vii., Line 438.
=Swearing.=
And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two
And sleeps again.
1841
SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act i., Sc. 4.
Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in
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