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Life a7id Love. 



time, is the greedy absorption with whicli this 

 brilliant creature of war feeds its season of love. 



" Do not believe that these riches are simply the 

 gifts of genial climates; that these glittering festal 

 garments which they assume to love and die in are 

 only the sheen of the sun, the all-powerful decora- 

 tor, which with its rays intensifies the enamel and 

 gems wc admire upon their wings. Another sun — 

 a sun which shines for the whole earth, even for the 

 ice-regions of the pole — profits them far more con- 

 siderabl)^ It exalts in them the inner life, evokes 

 all their powers, and, on the given da)-, calls forth 

 the supreme flower. Yonder scintillating colors 

 are their visible energies which become speaking 

 and eloquent. It is the pride of a complete life, 

 which, having attained its climax, display's its 

 energy in triumph, wishes to expand 

 and diffuse; it is the tradition of de- 

 sire, the imperious prayer and urgent 

 appeal to the beloved objects." 



4^'giLI3=i«^'i— - iJi/iis! 



