On the wings of the dragon fly as he hovers an instant before he darts there is a prismatic gleam. These wing textures are even more delicate than the minute filaments on a swallow's quill, more delicate than the pollen of a flower.


The Pagent of Summer, Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume, XXXVIII, Number 2, August, 1883 (p. 146)

Richard Jefferies Quotes

On the wings of the dragon fly as he hovers an instant before he darts there is a prismatic gleam. These wing textures are even more delicate than...

On the wings of the dragon fly as he hovers an instant before he darts there is a prismatic gleam. These wing textures are even more delicate than...

On the wings of the dragon fly as he hovers an instant before he darts there is a prismatic gleam. These wing textures are even more delicate than...

On the wings of the dragon fly as he hovers an instant before he darts there is a prismatic gleam. These wing textures are even more delicate than...