Crossword-Solution: GLIST 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

With sympathetic care Their arms around thee creep, For oh, they cannot bear To see their father weep! (Enter MABEL) SOLO—MABEL Dear father, why leave your bed At this untimely hour, When happy daylight is dead, And darksome dangers low'r? See, heav'n has lit her lamp, The midnight hour is past, And the chilly night-air is damp, And the dews are falling fast! Dear father, why leave your bed When happy daylight is dead? GIRLS: Oh, dry the glist'ning tear, etc.

But the hand was ther all right, Upside down, the way I'd dropped it, And glist'nin' fit to dazzle yer.

Verily, I swear, ’tis better to be lowly born And range with humble livers in content Than to be perked up in a glist’ring grief, And wear a golden sorrow.

But, had thy pale-faced purple took Fire from the burning cheeks of that bright book, Thou wouldst on her have heaped up all That could be found seraphical; Whate’er this youth of fire wears fair, Rosy fingers, radiant hair, Glowing cheek, and glist’ring wings, All those fair and flagrant things; But, before all, that fiery dart Had filled the hand of this great heart.

You wound my throat with jacinths, green and glist'ning serpent-wise, My hot, dark throat that pulsed beneath the ardour of your eyes; And centuries have failed to cool the memory of your hands That bound about my arms those massive, pliant golden bands.