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 infed tribe. 
Even the animated illuftration taken from the vege¬ 
table world, fo juftly admired, as belt calculated for 
general apprehenfion, mud yield in the force of its fi- 
militude to that drawn from the infed’s life, fince Na¬ 
ture exhibits few phaenomena 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 firft 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 walte the wintry tempefts reign, 
And driving fnows ufurp the frozen plain : 
In vain the tempeft beats, the whirlwind blows ; 
No Forms 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 
