 Lo.! the bright train their radiant wings unfold, With silver fringed, and freckled o'er with gold. On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower, They, idly fluttering, live their little hour ; Their life all pleasure, and their task all play, All spring...  The Naturalist's Library - Page 92edited by - 1835Full view - About this book
 | National Sunday school union - 1879 - 598 pages
...Inlaid with pearl, and mark'd with various stains Of lively crimson, through their dusky veins ; . . . Their life all pleasure, and their task all play, All spring their age, and sunshine all their day." THE usually bright colours of the Butterfly tribe, whatever protection they may afford to the insect... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pages
...length assured, they catch the favouring gale, And leave their sordid spoils and high in ether sail. 2. Lo! the bright train their radiant wings unfold, With...All spring their age, and sunshine all their day. Not so the child of sorrow, wretched man: His course with toil concludes, with pain began, That his... | |
 | Entomological Society of Ontario - Insect pests - 1890 - 642 pages
...tendency of authors has been to shorten the insect's life. Thus Mrs. Btrbauld very elegantly says : " Lo ! the bright train their radiant wings unfold, With silver fringed and freckled o'er vith gold. On the gay bosom of some frag ant flower, They idly fluttering live their little hunr, Their... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - Ontario - 1894 - 824 pages
...tendency of authors has been to shorten the insect's life. Thus Mrs. Birbauld very elegantly says : " Lo ! the bright train their radiant wings unfold,...fringed and freckled o'er with gold. On the gay bosom of fome fragiant flower, They idly fluttering live their tittle huur, Their life all pleasure and their... | |
 | William Jacob Holland - Butterflies - 1898 - 606 pages
...thing, That we may soar together." EUGENE FtELO. THE BUTTERFLIES OF NORTH AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO " Lo, the bright train their radiant wings unfold! With...All spring their age, and sunshine all their day." MRS. BARBAULO. ORDER LEPIDOPTERA SUBORDER RHOPALOCERA (BUTTERFLlES) FAMILY I NYMPHALID/E (THE BRUSH-FOOTED... | |
 | 1859 - 754 pages
...are already stirring, and in the TiAeina whole groups are now in the full blaze of their activity. " Lo the bright train their radiant wings unfold, With...the gay bosom of some fragrant flower, They, idly Buttering, live their little hour : Their life all pleasure and their tk all play, All spring their... | |
 | Ellen Bell Robertson Miller, Ellen Robertson-Miller - Butterflies - 1920 - 282 pages
...distinguish it as the summer butterfly. CHAPTER XXVIII THE MONARCH THE MILKWEED BUTTERFLY, Anoxia plexippus "Lo, the bright train their radiant wings unfold! With silver fringed, and freckled o'er with gold." A LONE stalk of milkweed grew in our orchard. How it had escaped the browsing teeth of Dolly or the... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1863 - 838 pages
...length assured, they catch the fav'ring gale, And leave their sordid spoil?, and high in rother sail. Lo ! the bright train their radiant wings unfold, With silver fringed and speckled o'er with gold j On the gay bosom of some fragrant flower They, idly fluttering, live their... | |
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