...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." Any one who observes the rapid flight of the dragon-fly, and indeed the majority of insects, must be...

...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." —TENNYSON. n. THE RENAISSANCE UNDER CHARLEMAGNE. THE accession of Charlemagne as king of the Franks...

...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 thej 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 run, And in the sixth she moulded...

...dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. ' 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." The dragon-fly belongs to the order neuroptera, or membranewinged INSECTS. DREDGE. Rivers and harbors...

...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...

...tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail " He dried his wings : like gauze they grew ; Thro'croft.s 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...

...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." Who is there that does not, or should not, rejoice to see youth playful and happy ! That is a most...

...dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. ' 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...