PTEROPODA. 243 



one moment look as if on fire from tropical coruscations, at 

 another, reveal innumerable stars, which are reflected in the 

 water, and gleam like quenchless flames in the depth of the 

 ocean. Still the creatures float on, each in her fairy- 

 formed vessel, delighting, it may be, in the grandeur and 

 the beauty of the lone wide sea and the glorious pomp of 

 midnight. — 



For who, in truth, may guess or tell, 

 ^Vhat thoughts those tiny bosoms swell ? 



