Everyday Objects; Or, Picturesque Aspects of Natural History.

by W. H. Davenport Adams

Then did her mother, Earth, rejoice in her;

Fig. 29.—"The attendant birds crowd round, and fill the air."

And she, with filial love and joy, admired,

Weeping and trembling, in the wont of maids.

Meantime her pious fame had filled the skies.

He that begat her, the almighty Sun,

Passing in regal state, did call her 'child,'