Joy

Joy


A DRAGON-FLY with beauteous wing
Is hov'ring o'er a silv'ry spring;
I watch its motions with delight,--
Now dark its colours seem, now bright;
Chameleon-like appear, now blue,
Now red, and now of greenish hue.
Would it would come still nearer me,
That I its tints might better see


It hovers, flutters, resting ne'er!


But hush! it settles on the mead.
I have it safe now, I declare!


And when its form I closely view,


'Tis of a sad and dingy blue--
Such, Joy-Dissector, is thy case indeed