Iris

THE IRIS, Iris Germanic

IRIS was the daughter of Thaumas and Electra, and her office was that of messenger to Juno. Therefore it is that in the "Iliad" and the "AEneid" this "lady of colour" has important business to transact, and, as a matter of course, her traffic between heaven and earth is facilitated by that prehistoric railroad and aerial bridge, the "bow bent in the sky," resplendent with in-numerable tints. The hues of the rainbow are seen in the human eye, for in truth the bow is there--

"Bespeaking our fears, dissolving in tears,