...head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings: like gauze they grew, Thro" crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew. Tennyson knows how the blackbird, gorged with summer fruit, ceases his song; he knows how the "dropping...

...to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. ' He dried his wings ; like gauze they grew : Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew • A living flash of light he flew.' I said, ' When first the world began, Young Nature thro' five cycles ran, And in the sixth she moulded...

...head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings; like gauze they grew: Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew." During the three or four weeks of his life in the air he is no less a destroyer of other insect life...

...head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings : like gauze they grew, Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew. Tennyson knows how the blackbird, gorged with summer fruit, ceases his song ; he knows how the "dropping...

...to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. ' He dried his wings : like gauze they grew : Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.' I said, ' When first the world began Young Nature thro' five cycles ran, And in the sixth she moulded...

...to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. ' He dried his wings : like gauze they grew ; Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.' I said, ' When first the world began, Young Nature thro' five cycles ran, And in the sixth she moulded...

...to tail Came out clear phitus of sapphire mail. " He dried his wings : like ganze they grew : Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew, A living flash of light he flew." Parasitic insects differ from their predaceous cousins in that they develop within the bodies of their...

...to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. "He dried his wings : like gauze they grew : Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew." I said, " When first the world began Young Nature thro' five cycles ran, V And in the sixth she moulded...

...head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. "He dried his wings: like gauze they grew ; Thro" crofts and pastures wet with dew A. living flash of light he flew." — Tenuvson. The order Odonata (Gr. odous, a tooth, probably referring to the toothed mandibles),...

...inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk : from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. He dried his wings ; like gauze they grew ; Through...pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew. And this beautiful simile from Nature of the Resurrection is the more accurate because the larva of...