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And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.— Shakespeare — Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 79.

Butterfly. I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.— THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY — I'd be a

Butterfly, Born in a Bower. With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found.— HEINE — Book of Songs. New Spring. No. 7. St. 1.

Far out at sea, -the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail, We saw a snow-white butterfly Dancing before the fitful gale, Far out at sea.— RICHARD HENGIST HORNE — Genius.

The gold-barr'd butterflies to and fro And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.— JOAQUIN MILLER — Songs of the

Sun-Lands. Isles of the Amazons. Pt. III. St. 41. Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy! Float near me; do not yet depart! Dead times revive in thee: Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art! A solemn image to my heart.— WORDSWORTH — To a Butterfly.

Dragonfly. The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair.— HEINE — Latest Poems. The Dragonfly.

Firefly. The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.— LOWELL — Midnight. St. 3.

Flea. "I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I!" "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man."— GAY — The Man and the Flea.

A blockhead, bit by fleas, put out the light, And chuckling cried, "Now you can't see to bite." S. Greek Anthology. It was many and many a year ago, In a District styled E. C., That a monster dwelt whom I came to know By the name of Cannibal Flea, And the brute was possessed with no other thought Than to live-and to live on me. THOS. HOOD, JR. - The Cannibal Flea. Parody on POE'S Annabel Lee. So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.— SWIFT — Poetry. A Rhapsody.

Fly. We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, body of get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body of any king.— BACON — Sylvia Sylvarum. Century I.

C. Experiment 100. The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.— GAY — The Beggar's Opera. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 35.

Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I! Freely welcome to my cup, Could'st thou sip and sip it up; Make the most of life you may; Life is short and wears away.— WILLIAM OLDYS — The Fly.

Oh! that the memories which survive us here Were half so lovely as these wings of thine! Pure relics of a blameless life, that shine Now thou art gone. CHARLES (TENNYSON) TURNER-On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book. Glow-worm. Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.— HEINE — Book of Songs. Donna Clara. St. 17.

Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late; And studying all the summer night, Her matchless songs does meditate.— ANDREW MARVELL — The Mower to the

Glow-worm. Here's a health to the glow-worm, Death's sober lamplighter. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)- Au Café. XXXIX. p. When evening closes Nature's eye, The glow-worm lights her little spark To captivate her favorite fly And tempt the rover through the dark.— MONTGOMERY — The Glow-worm.