Two dots of white eggs to her warm breast she cuddles!

Whiz-z! whiff! off to your flowers!

Buzz mid the perfume of jasmine bowers!

Chatter and chirrup, my king of the fays,

And laugh at the song that I sing in your praise!

CHARLES KEELER,
in Elfin Songs of Sunland.

SEPTEMBER 25.

THE HUMMING BIRD.

A sudden whirr of eager sound—