THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
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And day and night he loved to trace 
The workings of her wondrous 
will ; 
And cunning' marvels that fulfil 
Each inward change and outward 
grace. 
And often in some silent glade, 
That deep in summer verdure lies, 
Alone, he wandered to invade 
Sweet gems of Nature’s sanctua- 
ries. 
And in the smallest flower that 
grew — 
Grass-hidden, tiny sentinel, 
W atching the summer sun, he knew 
A God’s device ; and loved it well. 
For him the tiny insect hummed 
A very clarion note of mirth ; 
His spirit gladdened at the birth 
Of every dawning leaf that bloomed. 
At dewy morn, and sunny eve, 
Dim-mirrored in tranquillity, 
He caught the centre beams that 
leave 
The distant portals of the sky. 
Each tenant of a bud or blade ; 
Each little form that held its 
lease, 
Of joyous living, soon to fade ; 
Of transient beauty soon to cease ; 
Each lip that drank the fallen dew ; 
Each note that chirruped to the 
breeze, 
And rose and fell among the trees, 
And singing loud and louder grew. 
Were but the daisy born again, 
The flower that knew another 
sky, 
And grew to witness, not in vain, 
The presence of divinity. 
Oh ! call him foolish if you will ! 
A silent, dreamy, moping sage ! 
I list he knew the streams that fill 
The happy tide of every age. 
And this I know, beyond a doubt, 
That, if he ever, dreaming, caught 
One truth, he had not lived for 
naught ; 
Such truths are worth the finding 
out. 
Go each his way 1 The dreamers 
tread 
A way, that we have all confessed 
Is moulded by the Fountain-head ; 
I judge their way to be the best. 
, N. N. N. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Lepidoptera. 
Are the Smerinthi double brooded 1 
—As none of the works on Lepidop- 
tera, that I have seen, state that 
S. Populi is double brooded ; and as 
some of my friends seemed ignorant 
of that fact, it occurred to me that 
it might be unknown to others of 
your readers. 
Last Autumn, my friend E. Cooper, 
Esq., of St Leonard’s, sent me a 
consignment of pupce, which he had 
collected at Henley-on-Thames, 
among which were some fine S. Po- 
puli. The Imago of these began to 
come out in May, and continued to 
do so over a period of six weeks, 
