d'une âme maligne, ' archly,' ' roguishly

Page 106. La Grêle. I. 10. grai'ois ; literally, ' rubble,' ' rubbish of plaster ' ; but hère rather used with the sensé of gravier, 'gravel.'

Route printanière. 1. 7. aux bosquets, 'in the groves.'

I. II. blancs et dorés, i.e. white with daisies and yellow with buttercups.

Page 107. Route printanière, 1. 21. Sous l'azur d'ailes tressaillant, ' under the azuré sky ail astir with birds on the wing.'

Hospitalité. Note how this poem with its fine burden imitative of a popular song conjures up the image of an oldfiishioned, trim Krench garden.

II. 3-4. Savez-vous . . . vous tnène t Understand : 'Do not go an y further. It is too late and the road is too dark.'

Page 108. Rêves. 1. 13. Mais je n'ai pas osé rêver. Cf. Herrick's ' I dare not ask a kiss.' La Niverolle, ' the snow-finch.'

Page 109. La Niverolle. 1. 2. névés, stretches of frozen snow immediately abovc thc Une where a glacier begins.

1. 29. Et quand la neige, &c., i.e. when thc last day cornes for the Earth, according to thc hypothesis which assumes that ail life shall ceasc on her froin want of wannth.

Page 110. 1. 37. mais n'arrive à l'oreille que de ceux . . , Cf. Wordsworth's sonnet on Mutabilité : —

From low to high doth dissolution climb And sink from high to low, along a scale Of awful notes, wliosc concord shall not fail;