. Strolls by starlight and sunshine;. Natural history. flowers sway- ing among the familiar daisies id grasses of my own land, and otherwise attended by a host of meadow flowers whose names I had not yet learned. The night ephemerae fluttered here and there, and a large moth, which seemed al- most phosphorescent in its whiteness, hovered spirit-like close above the poppies, recalling to mind a weird picture which I had once lingered over in genuine fascination—"The Soul of the Opium - Eater "— representing a gauze-winged moth in the moonlight sipping "the drop serene" from
. Strolls by starlight and sunshine;. Natural history. flowers sway- ing among the familiar daisies id grasses of my own land, and otherwise attended by a host of meadow flowers whose names I had not yet learned. The night ephemerae fluttered here and there, and a large moth, which seemed al- most phosphorescent in its whiteness, hovered spirit-like close above the poppies, recalling to mind a weird picture which I had once lingered over in genuine fascination—"The Soul of the Opium - Eater "— representing a gauze-winged moth in the moonlight sipping "the drop serene" from the open chalice of a poppy—a bold Hawthornesque conceit SLEETING POPPIES. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton), 1850-1896. New York, Harper & brothers
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