Rain from the mountains of Ki-Sho Fled swiftly with a tearing breeze; The sun came radiant down the west, And
greener blushed the valley trees.
"The grass is
greener and things are sticking up every- where and things are uncurling and green buds of leaves are showing.
The old grass looked
greener, and the young grass thrust up its tiny blades; the buds of the guelder-rose and of the currant and the sticky birch-buds were swollen with sap, and an exploring bee was humming about the golden blossoms that studded the willow.
So the spring days came and went , the sky grew clearer, the earth
greener, the flowers were up fairly early, and the birds came back in time to say goodbye to Beth, who, like a tired but trustful child, clung to the hands that had led her all her life, as Father and Mother guided her tenderly through the Valley of the Shadow, and gave her up to God.
Yet, as the ever-woven verdant warp and woof intermixed and hummed around him, the mighty idler seemed the cunning weaver; himself all woven over with the vines; every month assuming
greener, fresher verdure; but himself a skeleton.
It was
greener, he said, than all the other gardens, and the birds loved it better because he had been used to feed them.
The pitch pines and shrub oaks about my house, which had so long drooped, suddenly resumed their several characters, looked brighter,
greener, and more erect and alive, as if effectually cleansed and restored by the rain.
And
greener fields than in yon world above, And women's loveliness - and passionate love."
The first seven hundred miles a level continent, its grassy carpet
greener and softer and smoother than any sea and figured with designs fitted to its magnitude--the shadows of the clouds.
Throughout dinner he took a dry delight in making Sarah Pocket
greener and yellower, by often referring in conversation with me to my expectations; but here, again, he showed no consciousness, and even made it appear that he extorted - and even did extort, though I don't know how - those references out of my innocent self.
For about ten minutes he sat in dead silence, perfectly still, except for several expressive motions of his eyebrows, and all the time his eyes grew steadily
greener. At last he heaved a deep sigh.
Therefore I say to you, go, also; and take especial heed, in crossing the bottoms, that you get not entangled again in the fires, for the honest hunters often burn the grass at this season, in order that the buffaloes may find a sweeter and a
greener pasturage in the spring."