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' Mais, he'Ias ! Fair t'emporte et la terre m'enchaine ; 



Sort cruel ! 

 Je voudrais embaumer ton vol de mon haleine 



Dans le ciel ! 



' Mais non, tu vas trop loin ! Parmi des fleurs sans nombre 



Vous fuyez, 

 Et moi je reste seul a voir tourner mon ombre 



A mes pieds ! 



' Tu fuis, puis tu reviens, puis tu t'en vas encore 



Luire ailleurs. 

 Aussi me trouves-tu toujours a chaque aurore 



Toute en pleurs ! 



' Oh ! pour que notre amour coule des jours ficleles, 



O mon roi ; 

 Prends comme moi racine, ou donne moi des ailes 



Comme a toi ! ' 



Now and then quite strange insects appear just once, 

 and then never again. I have heard that is because eggs 

 of insects are sometimes deposited in baskets or bales 

 bringing goods from hot countries, which in dry summers 

 are hatched out in these Northern climates. One summer 

 my Sedums were covered with a lovely green beetle. I 

 have never seen him again, but I am too ignorant to know 

 if he were a stranger or only an insect common in our 

 gardens and appearing in some summers and not in 

 others a usual occurrence with all insects. Sometimes 

 there are a quantity of one kind, they having triumphed 

 over their natural enemies and flourished abundantly. 

 Then for a year or two they disappear entirely. This is 

 an especial characteristic of butterflies. I thought there 

 might be some way of encouraging butterflies in my 

 garden, where they seem to have become rarer, and I 

 asked a friend who has studied natural history all his life 

 whether he could help me to do this. His answer was : 

 1 The way to have butterflies is to encourage the food- 



