i6 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [January, 



LUTHER'S SADDEST EXPERIENCE. 



Luther, he was persecuted, 

 Excommunicaied, hooted, 

 Disappointed — egged, and booted; 

 Yelled at by minutest boys. 

 Waked up by nocturnal noise, 

 Scratched and torn by fiendish cats, 

 High way ed by voracious rats. 



Oft upon his locks so hoary 



VV^ater fell from upper story; 



Oft a turnip or potato 



Struck upon his back or pate, Oh! 



And wherever he betook him, 



A paper bull was sure to hook him. 



But the saddest of all 



I am forced to relate; 



Of a diet of worms 



He was forced to partake, — 



Of a diet of worms 



For the Protestants' sake; 



Munching crawling caterpillars. 



Beetles mixed with moths and millers; 



Instead of butter, on his bread 



A sauce of butterflies was spread. 



Was not this a horrid feast 



For a Christian and a priest ? 



Now if you do not credit me. 

 Consult D'Aubigne's history. 

 You'll find what I have told you 

 Most fearfully and sternly true. 



Note. — The above stanzas appeared in the " Yale Literary Magazine" 

 in or near the year 1852, from the pen, I believe, of a student. This 

 transcript from memory is believed to be nearly accurate. 



J. M. Whiton. 



The following lines "to a spider which inhabited a cell," are from the 

 Anthologia Borealis et Australis: 



In this wild, groping, dark, and drearie cove. 



Of wife, of children, and of health bereft, 

 I hailed thee, friendly Spider, who hadst wove 



Thy mazy net on yonder mouldering raft: 

 Would that the cleanlie housemaid's foot had left 



Thee tarrying here, nor took thy life away; 

 For thou, from out this seare old ceiling's cleft, 



Came down each mom" to hede my plaintive lay; 

 Joying like me to heare sweete musick play, 

 Wherewith I'd fein beguile the dull, dark, lingering day. 



Cowan's Curious Facts. 



