A DRAGON-FLY with beauteous wing <br />Is hov'ring o'er a silv'ry spring; <br />I watch its motions with delight,-- <br />Now dark its colours seem, now bright; <br />Chameleon-like appear, now blue, <br />Now red, and now of greenish hue. <br />Would it would come still nearer me, <br />That I its tints might better see <br /> <br />It hovers, flutters, resting ne'er! <br /> <br />But hush! it settles on the mead. <br />I have it safe now, I declare! <br /> <br /> And when its form I closely view, <br /> <br /> 'Tis of a sad and dingy blue-- <br />Such, Joy-Dissector, is thy case indeed<br /><br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/joy-6/
