STARS OF THE EARTH. 



" Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, 

 The glow-worm lights her gem, and through the dark 

 A moving radiance twinkles." 



" Voir au ciel briller les etoiles, 

 Et sous Fherbe les vers luisans." 



BESIDES almost every other object in the world, its various 

 luminaries, both natural and moral, find their representatives 

 and symbols in the insect creation. The fixed, or as it appears 

 to our childish and, what is nearly the same thing, our unre- 

 flective view, the little twinkling star, is emulated by the 



