and commences a being of powers fo comparatively 

 exalted, and of beauty fo fuperior, as to be one of the 

 moft elegant of the whole infecft tribe. 



Even the animated illuftration taken from the vege- 

 table world, fo juftly admired, as bed calculated for 

 general apprehenfion, muft yield in the force of its fi~ 

 militude to that drawn from the infe&'s life, fince Na- 

 ture exhibits few phenomena that can equal fo won- 

 derful a transformation. 



This metamorphofis is thus defcribed by an anony- 

 mous poet. 



The helplefs crawling caterpillar trace, 



From the firfl period of his reptile race. 



Cloth'd in difhonour, on the leafy fpray 



Unfeen he wears his filent hours away. 



'Till fatiate grown of all that life fupplies, 



Self-taught, the voluntary martyr dies. 



Deep under earth his darkling courfe he bends, 



And to the tomb, a willing gueft, defcends. 



There long fecluded in his lonely cell, 



Forgets the fun, and bids the world farewel. 



O'er the wide waite the wintry tempefts reign. 



And driving fnows ufurp the frozen plain : 



in vain the tempeft beats, the whirlwind blows 



No ftorms can violate his grave's repofe. 



But when revolving months have won their way, 



When fmile the woods, and when the zephyrs 



play, 

 When laughs the vivid world in fummer's bloom, 

 He burfts, and flies triumphant from the tomb. 



And 



