Red and Indefinites 



ful mechanism works to utilize his visits has already been told on 

 p. 68, in the description of the blue lobelia of similar construction. 

 But with a bird so much greater than the ruby-throat that the 

 jewelled-feathered atom could be concealed under one of its talons 

 is the red lobelia forever associated : 



" The cardinal, and the blood-red spots, 



Its double in the stream ; 

 As if some wounded eagle's breast, 



Slow throbbing o'er the plain, 

 Had left its airy path impressed 



In drops of scarlet rain." 



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