The wings which, when a child, bore me wherever I desired, have lost their strength.

They do not wholly refuse their service, but they now require favourable hours to move." "I should not have expected that in the time of your youth, your most beautiful possession," replied the Queen.

"Yet it is well.

I too--how long ago it seems!--was a child, and my imagination outstripped even the flight of the eagle.

It could dare the risk unpunished.