Crab, Shrimp, and Lobster Lore: Gathered Amongst the Rocks at the Sea-shore, by the Riverside, and in the Forest

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G. Routledge, 1867 - Crabs - 122 pages

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Page 28 - They moved in tracks of shining white; And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire — Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 78 - Stretched like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land ; and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.
Page 39 - Give me to drain the cocoa's milky bowl, And from the palm to draw its freshening wine ; More bounteous far, than all the frantic juice Which Bacchus pours.
Page 77 - Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea...
Page 27 - See as they float along th' entangled Weeds Slowly approach, upborn on bladdery Beads ; Wait till they land, and you shall then behold The fiery Sparks those tangled Frons' infold, Myriads of living Points * ; th' unaided Eye Can but the Fire and not the Form descry. And now your view upon the Ocean turn, >' •- : And there the Splendour of the Waves discern ; Cast but a Stone, or strike them with an Oar, • : And you shall Flames within the Deep explore ; Or scoop the Stream phosphoric as you...
Page 77 - Graze, the seaweed their pasture, and through groves Of coral stray, or sporting, with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold, Or in their pearly shells at ease, attend Moist nutriment, or under rocks their food In jointed armour watch : on smooth the seal And bended dolphins play : part, huge of bulk...
Page 77 - Graze the sea-weed their pasture, and through groves Of coral stray, or sporting with quick glance Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold ; Or in their pearly shells at ease attend Moist nutriment, or under rocks their food In jointed armour watch : on smooth the seal And bended dolphins play ; part, huge of bulk, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean...
Page 27 - Those living jellies which the flesh inflame, Fierce as a nettle, and from that its name ; Some in huge masses, some that you may bring In the small compass of a lady's ring ; Figured by hand divine— there's not a gem Wrought by man's art to be compared to them ; Soft, brilliant, tender, through the wave they glow, And make the moonbeam brighter where they flow.
Page 27 - Involved in sea-wrack, here you find a race, Which science doubting, knows not where to place ; On shell or stone is dropp'd the embryo-seed, And quickly vegetates a vital breed. While thus with pleasing wonder you inspect Treasures the vulgar in their scorn reject, See as they float along th...
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