Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 210
glidethrough the somber night, leaving a brilliant silver orgolden track—the luminous, ephemeral trail of a meteor ^ Sometimes, when Nighr has silently spread the im-mensity of her wings above the weary Earth, a shiningspeck is seen to detach itself in the shades of eveningfrom the starry vault,… … Fig. 54.—A Meteor.191 ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS dainty flames dart in every direction through space,sowing the fine dust of their gilded wings upon the fieldsof Heaven. They are born to die; their life is only abreath; yet the impression which they make upon theimagination of mortals is of the…
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