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delicate organs. To keep the pipes ever open, they 

 are provided inside with an elastic spiral thread, like the 

 rubber tube of a drop-light. It also has air-sacs in the 

 head. 



The nerves or veins of a grasshopper's wing consist 

 of a tube within a tube; the inner one is a trachae carrying 

 air; the outer one sheathing it is a blood-vessel. So per- 

 fect is the aeration of the whole body, from brain to feet, 

 that its blood is oxygenated as soon as it is carbonized. 

 It therefore has only arterial blood. 



This is the life of the happy wayside insect. When 

 the glad summer of his life is done he dies. He does not live 

 to be sick, or hungry, or cold; he is the happiest of living 

 things. He does nothing but dance and sing, eat fresh 

 leaves, and drink cool dew, from early spring to late autumn, 

 where they can be found by any grassy roadside. 



I would dwell with thee, 



Merry grasshopper, 

 Thou art so glad and free, 

 And as light as air; 

 Thou hast no sorrow or tears, 

 Thou hast no compt of years, 

 No withered immortality, 

 But a short youth sunny and free. 

 Carol clearly, bound along, 

 Soon thy joy is over, 

 A summer of loud song, 

 And slumbers in the clover. 

 What hast thou to do with evil 

 In thine hour of love and revel, 

 In thy heat of summer pride, 

 Pushing thy thick roots aside 

 Of the singing flowered grasses, 

 That brush thee with their silken tresses? 

 What hast thou to do with evil, 

 Shooting, singing, ever springing, 

 In and out the emerald glooms. 

 Ever leaping, ever singing, 

 Lighting on the golden blooms? 



The Grasshopper. TENNYSON. 



