...purple wing The insect-queen " of eastern spring, O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer 390 • Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on from flower...wasted hour, Then leaves him, as it soars on high, \\ ith panting heart and tearful eye : 395 So Beauty lures the full-grown child With hue as bright,...

...rising on its purple wing The insect-queen of eastern spring, O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on from flower...bright, and wing as wild ; A chase of idle hopes and feara, Begun in folly, closed in tears. If won, to equal ills betray'd, Woe waits the insect and the...

...pure, transparent, pale, yet radiant face, Like to a lighted alabaster vase. THE FATE OF BEAUTY. ' And leads him on from flower to flower A weary chase...full-grown child, With hue as bright, and wing as wild ; A chace of idle hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed in tears. If won, to equal ills betray'd, Woe...

...rising on its purple wing The insect-queen* of eastern spring, O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on from flower to flower A weary chase and wasted hour, * The blue- winged butterfly of Kashmeer, the most rare aw Beautiful of the species. VOL. v. — z...

...on its purple wing The insect-queen lti of eastern spring, OYr emerald meadows of Kashmeer Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on, from flower...hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed in tears. If won, to equal ills betray'd, Woe waits the insect and the maid ; A life of pain, the loss of peace,...

...rising on its purple wing, The insect-queen of eastern spring O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on from flower...panting heart and tearful eye : So Beauty lures the full grown child, With hue as bright, and wing as wild; A chase of idle hopes and fears, Begun in folly,...

...on its purple vine;, * The insect-queen of eastern spring O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on from flower...leaves him, as it soars on high, With panting heart and te.uf 1 eye: So Beauty lures the full-grown child, With hue as bright, and wing as wild; A chase of...

...insect-queen of eastern spring. O'er emerald-meadows of kashmeer Invilvs the young pursuer near, And lends him on from flower to flower A weary chase and wasted...the full-grown child. With hue as bright, and wing us wild ; A chase of idle hopes and fears, Begun in folly, closed in tears. If won, to equal ills betray'd,...

...rising on its purple wing The iusect-queen'6 of eastern spring, O'er emerald meadows of Kashmeer Invites the young pursuer near, And leads him on from flower...soars on high, With panting heart and tearful eye: So beanty lures the full-grown child, With bue as bright, and wing as wild : A chase of idle hopes and...

...O'er emerald-meadows of Kashmeer Invites the young pursner near. And leads him on from flower to finwr A weary chase and wasted hour. Then leaves him, as it soars on liirh. With panting heart and tearful <•%>•: So Beauty lures the full-grown rliilH. With hue as...