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All the wings are very narrow, 

 All have long and silken fringes ; 

 Hind wings hidden by the fore mugs, 

 And of dull and sober colours ; 

 Fore wings variously coloured. 

 Often of a snowy whiteness, 

 Often most obscure and dingy, 

 Some magniticently coloured 

 With the most refulgent splendour. 

 Splendour as of hues metallic 

 Living glories evanescent, 

 Purest silver, molten copper. 

 Inexhaustible invention 

 Of the beautiful and charming 

 Is displayed in Tiueina ! 

 Then, if God so clothe these atoms 

 For a day's or week's existence, 

 Think, my Lam-a, how surpassing. 

 How exhaustless is bis power ! 

 Is not their histoiy a lesson. 

 Teaching how the God of Nature 

 Cares for his minutest beings. 

 And insures their preservation 

 Through unnumbered generations ? 



Lastly, the Pterophorina 

 Have the fore wings and the hind wings 

 Cut in fingerlike divisions ; 

 All the wings are straight porrected. 



