<h2 id="c5">MY HUMMINGBIRD.</h2>
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<p class="t0">No other fairy did I see</p>
<p class="t">So graceful, pulsing, in the air,</p>
<p class="t0">As if the heart of nature beat</p>
<p class="t">Its throbbings in the birdlet there.</p>
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<p class="t0">The gray, the green, the dash of red,</p>
<p class="t">The beating wings that gauzy seem—</p>
<p class="t0">So rapid the vibrating hum—</p>
<p class="t">I almost dream were but a dream.</p>
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<p class="t0">Then suddenly I cry aloud,</p>
<p class="t">When in a rapid-shooting ray,</p>
<p class="t0">My fairy disappears, a-flash,</p>
<p class="t">Into the sun-haunts far away.</p>
<p class="lr">Willis Edwin Hurd.</p>
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<div class="fig"> <ANTIMG src="images/img1032.jpg" alt="" width-obs="500" height-obs="598" /> <p class="caption">RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD. <br/>(Selasphorus rufus.) <br/>Life-size.
<br/><span class="small">FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES.</span></p>
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