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withered leaves : now, was not that conveyed in what you have 

 been saying? 



Oh ! could we do with this world of ours 

 As thou dost with thy garden bowers, 

 Reject the weeds and keep the flowers, 



What a heaven on earth we'd make it ! 

 So bright a dwelling should be our own, 

 So warranted free from sigh or frown. 

 That angels soon would be coming down, 



By the week, or month, to take it. 



Like those gay flies that wing through air. 

 And, in themselves, a lustre bear, 

 A stock of light still ready there, 



Whenever they wish to use it ; 

 So, in this world, I'd make for thee; 

 Our hearts should all like fire-flies be, 

 And the flash of wit and poesy 



Break forth whenever we choose it. 



Erro. Would that my life were synchronous with such a 

 blissful world ; but, alas ! how different is ours ! Look on our 

 entomological world, how barren the minds, not only of all wit 

 and poesy, but of all greatness, and nobleness, and goodness ! 

 Ambulator, Hanson, Bird, and one other, are the only ento- 

 mologists to whom I feel bound by any ties of kindred feeling, 

 affection, or gratitude. The fourth shall be nameless ; it is 

 not well to detail the whole list of one's friends to every one 

 with whom one may chance to have a gossip. {Continues 

 musingly and half aside.) 



Te vero mea quem spatiis propioribus aetas 

 Insequitur, venerande puer, jam pectore toto 

 Accipio, et comitem casus complector in omnes. 

 Nulla meis sine te quseretur gloria rebus ; 

 Seu pacem sen bella geram : tibi maxima rerum 

 Verborumque fides. 



Ent. Come, I'll have nothing said against the Society, 

 underhand: it is going down; I was at the meeting on 

 Monday ; there were not a dozen members present, and half 

 of those wore visages I had never seen before ; I vvent with 

 Marshall, one of the good old school. 



Erro. I once hoped that the Entomological Society would 

 have been the means of uniting entomologists into one body, 

 and called forth kindlier feelings among us. I looked for 



