• Insect or blossom? Fragile, fairy thing,
    Poised upon slender tip, and quivering
    To flight! a flower of the fields of air;
    A jewelled moth; a butterfly, with rare
    And tender tints upon his downy wing,
    A moment resting in our happy sight;
    A flower held captive by a thread so slight
    Its petal-wings of broidered gossamer
    Are, light as...