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THE WING. 



Wings ! -wingis ! to sweep 

 O'er mountain liigli and valley deep. 

 "Wings ! that my heart may rest 

 In the radiant morning's breast. 



Wings ! to hover free 



O'er the dawn-empurpled sea. 



Wings ! 'bove life to soar, 



And beyond death for evermore." 



^CS5^^ => ^ EUCKEET. 



-^ ^ It is the cry of the whole earth, of the world, of all 



life ; it is that which every species of animals or plants 



utters in a hundred diverse tongues — the voice which 



^^^^ issues from the very rock and the inorganic creation: 



" Wings ! we seek for wings, and the power of flight and motion !" 



Yea; the most inert bodies rush greedily into the chemical trans- 

 formations which will make them part and parcel of the current of 

 the universal life, and bestow upon them the organs of movement 

 and fermentation. 



