Spring
and
graceful ernately soaring like a ripple
and tumbling a rod or two over and over, she under side of
its he
pearly inside of a s reminded me of falconry and
ry are associated sport. the
Merlin it seemed to me it mig I care not for its
name. It et I nessed. It did
not simply flutter like a butterfly, nor soar like the larger hawks,
but it sported ing
again and again s strange c repeated its free and
beautiful fall, turning over and over like a kite, and then
recovering from its lofty tumbling, as if it its foot
on terra firma. It appeared to he universe --
sporting to need none but the
et played. It lonely, but made all the
eart. s
kindred, and its fatenant of t
seemed related to t by an egg cime in the
crevice of a crag; -- or s native nest made in the angle of a
cloud, rimmings and t sky, and
lined midsummer up from earts eyry
now some cliffy cloud.
Beside t a rare mess of golden and silver and bright
cupreous fisring of jewels. Ah! I have
penetrated to t spring
day, jumping from o to willow
root, whed in so
pure and brig as would hey had
been slumbering in there needs no
stronger proof of immortality. All t live in such a
liging? O Grave, why
victory, then?
Our village life agnate if it for the
unexplored forests an