

INSECT .MINSTRELSY. 



''' Sounds inharmonious in themselves and harsh, 

 Vet heard in scenes where peace for ever reigns, 

 And only there please highly for their sake." 



' A populous solitude of bees and birds, 

 And fairy- formed, and many-coloured things, 

 Who worship [Him] with notes more sweet than words, 

 And innocently open their glad wings, 

 Fearless and full of life." 



IF measured by their influence on the mind, those simple notes 

 of harmony or discord, produced by many of the insect race, 

 are of no mean importance in the scale of sounds. Their 

 power must certainly, however, be attributed rather to associate 



