124 PAPILIO. 
Butterfly,” which appeared in the ‘‘ Times,” on the 8th of August, 
1828, shortly after the publication of that by Archdeacon Wrang- 
ham. The elegance of many of the lines will be an ample excuse 
for my introducing it into a vaeant page. 
PAPILIO. (Versio altera.) 
Proles arbusti, Papilio ut forem, 
Violas, et lilia, et rosas halans ; 
Erraticus usque de flore ad florem, 
Que pulchra, que suavia sunt, osculans! 
Non opum sentirem, non regni furorem, 
Ut sternat se coram me nemo, curans: 
Modo proles arbusti Papilio si forem, 
Que suavia, pulchraque sunt, osculans! 
O, ndssem caduceum Mage subtrahere, 
Has alulas pulchras induerem mi: > 
ZEstivo sub axe vagantur in aére, 
Et rosa cubant, ubi gemis, Atthi! 
Sit vigil et cautus, qui dives, necesse est ; 
Nil afferunt sceptra, miserias ni: 
Papilionem me ter satis esse est, 
Rosa cubantem, cum gemis, Atthi! 
Quid quod autumni cum redit tempestas, 
Vanescunt errones hi mox parvuli : 
Multo plus preestat, cum finiit estas, 
Morientibus omnibus pulchris, mori ! 
In hieme vite, queis ridet hic status, 
Arcento, si poterunt, ictum leti : 
Fiam Papilio, degamque paratus, 
Morientibus omnibus pulchris, mori! 
The plate also represents a single flower of the Indian Dendro- 
bium moschatum of Hamilton, of which a most splendid specimen, 
with a great number of pendent branches covered with blossoms, 
formed one of the finest ornaments at the June féte at the Horti- 
cultural Society's Gardens at Chiswick, 1842. 
