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STARS OF THE EARTH. 



" Among the crooked lanes, on every he<L r < . 

 The glowworm lights her gem, and through tin- 

 A moving radiance twinkles." 



" Voir au ciel briller les etoilcs, 

 Et sous 1'herbe les vers luisans." 



BESIDES almost every other object in the world, its various 

 luminaries, both natural and moral, find their representatives 

 nnd symbols in the insect creation. The fixed, or as it appears 

 to our childish and, what is nearly the same thing, our unre- 

 flective view, the little twinkling star, is emulated by the 



