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Insects-Katydid: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark, A moving radiance twinkles.— THOMSON — The Seasons. Summer. L. 1,682.

Gnat. A work of skill, surpassing sense, A labor of Omnipotence; Though frail as dust it meet thine eye, He form'd this gnat who built the sky.— MONTGOMERY — The Gnat.

Grasshopper. Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.— ABRAHAM COWLEY — Anacreontiques. No. 10. The Grasshopper.

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.— LEIGH HUNT — To the Grasshopper and

the Cricket. When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run new- From hedge to hedge about the mown mead; That is the grasshopper's-he takes the lead done In summer luxury-he has never With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.— KEATS — On the Grasshopper and Cricket.

Katydid. Thou art a female, Katydid! I know it by the trill That quivers through thy piercing notes So petulant and shrill. I think there is a knot of you Beneath the hollow tree, A knot of spinster Katydids, - Do Katydids drink tea?— O. W. HOLMES — To an Insect.

Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well.— WALT WHITMAN — Leaves of Grass. Pt. XXXIII. St. 196.