TWO WINGS. 23 



At right angles with the body. 

 These fantasticlooking creatures 

 Scarcely seem to class with Scale Wings, 

 But their structure, so abnormal, 

 Serves to indicate the sequence 

 Of the Tipulse, or Craneflies, 

 Which we must ere long consider. 



This discourse on Scale Wings ended, 

 I wiU pick these purple vetches, 

 Purple vetches, Vicia cracca, 

 And I'll twine them in a chaplet. 

 And the Queen of Scale Wings crown thee. 



IV. 



TRIBES OF THE TWO WINGS. 



Laura, let us go to Plumstead, 

 By the well known North Kent Railway, 

 Starting from the Blackheath Station, 

 Passing through the Charlton tunnel, 

 Through that damp and darksome tunnel. 

 By the sandy pits at Charlton, 



