Quote & Meaning
Hummingbird Quotes
What do you know that we humans miss?
What need to sing? Here’s music enough.
Is it a monster bee, / Or is it a midget bird
Ah! ’tis the humming-bird, / Rich-coated one, / Ruby-throated one
Like scales of burnish’d gold they dazzling show
What heavenly tints in mingling radiance fly
Voyager on golden air, / Type of all that’s fleet and fair
Star-bird fallen from happy skies.
Onward, onward must he roam
Its tiny form and colors bright / In memory live, when lost to sight.
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