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And their pupae have two stages : 

 First, with wings rolled up in cases, 

 Much like many other pupae ; 

 Next, with wings spread out for flying. 

 And adapted, too, for flying. 

 Being thus a flying pupa. 

 It is strange to see a pupa, 

 Settling, may be, on our clothing, 

 Casting off its outer garment, 

 And emerging as a Dayfly, 

 Most elaborately fashioned. 

 But the creature of an hour. 

 Here the bard might draw a moral 

 From the evanescent Dayfly, 

 Might improve the apt occasion. 

 As his tribe have done before him ; 

 But the insect world is wondrous 

 As a whole and altogether : 

 He who tries to read it rightly 

 Finds it a perpetual sermon, 

 Fraught with the profoundest teaching. 



Now we come to kings and princes. 

 Princes of the world of insects. 

 See Lindenia formosa, 

 With its brilliant hue caerulean ; 

 See it hover o'er the waters. 

 Poised aloft on rustling pinions ; 

 Then, as by some sudden impulse. 



