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Larkspur ....Flights of Fancy. 
Larkspur, Lark’s-claw, Lark-heels, and Lark’s-toe 
have been given in allusion to the long spur-like nec¬ 
tary, which has been whimsically supposed to represent 
these things, and many more. The Latin name, Del¬ 
phinium, is from the Greek, Dolphin, because the nec¬ 
tary was thought like that fish. The French call it 
Dauphinelle,piedd’alauette, Veperondechevalier, (knight’s 
spur;) and the Italian, speronella, (little spur,) sperone 
dicavaliere, (knight’s spur,) and fiorregio, (king-flower.) 
These names give quite a chivalric importance to the 
gentle flower, and furnish abundant subject for thought 
and fancy. Our own rural names give us a picture of 
the sky-lark; that “ musical cherub,’’ soaring far and 
high into the blue summer heaven, above the lonely 
mountain-top, or over the busy town, and we can recall 
the delight of listening to his sweet melody. 
Louisa A. Twamley. 
For never yet was bosom found 
So dull of sense to music’s sound, 
As not to linger On the way, 
And list to his ascending lay, 
And upward gaze with straining sight, 
And see him melting into light; 
Till the eye fail its part to bear 
In concert with the hearing ear; 
