SCALE WINGS. 21 



And comparative distiuction, 

 Hence it is ignored in Science. 

 Haply, in the distant future, 

 Some great teacher like thy father 

 May supply us with the knowledge 

 How to separate these minims 

 From the other larger Scale Wings, 

 And to group them after Nature. 

 Very various are the larvae ; 

 Some are smooth and others hairy, 

 Some are stout and others slender, 

 Mostly they are sobercoloured. 

 But a few are gaily tinted. 

 In all places you may find them, 

 In the house our old clothes eating. 

 In the gardens in the apples, 

 In the woods inside the acorns. 

 In the hedges, in the meadows. 

 Where they feed on every green thing, 

 Nibbhng at the leaves and flowers. 

 Sometimes turning down a corner 

 Of the young leaves, and so making 

 For themselves a tentlike dwelling. 

 Where each feeds at will securely. 

 Some make cases which they live in, 

 Locomotive habitations, 

 Of all kinds of forms fantastic, 

 Houses which they carry snaillike. 



