Hummingbirds of the South

Surely it took its fire-green hue
From day-breaks that it glittered through;
Quick, for this sparkle of the dawn
Glints through the garden and is gone.
~Edwin Markham (1852–1940), "The Humming Bird"

winglet of the fairy humming-bird	No class of artists excels the humming-birds	So Fairy-Like and Bright	The birds that Winter drives away Will surely come again with Spring.
Give me a life of action	And from Humming-Bird to Eagle, the daily existence of every bird is a remote and bewitching mystery. ~Thomas Wentworth Higginso	God has blessed all beauties of Nature	Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran
Freedom	Twilight Breeze	Fairy Sunset	Winglet of the Fairy Humming-bird
Like Atoms of the Rainbow Fluttering Round	A Living Prismatic Gem	A Creature of Such Fairy-Like Loveliness	A Creature of Delight!
A Reign of Summer Joyfulness	Action is eloquence. ~William Shakespeare