Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children; with Some Lessons in Latin, in Easy Rhyme. By Sara Coleridge. The Fourth Edition, with Many Cuts |
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INSECTS.
A common fly is musca,
And apis means a bee,
Papilio's a butterfly,
So beautiful to see:
A spider is aranea,
And limax means a snail;
And vespa is the slender wasp,—
A sting is in his tail.
And apis means a bee,
Papilio's a butterfly,
So beautiful to see:
A spider is aranea,
And limax means a snail;
And vespa is the slender wasp,—
A sting is in his tail.
Cicāda is an insect
That sings a merry song;
Formica is the busy ant
That labours late and long:
And vermis is the earth-worm
That crawls along the ground;
And fucus is the lazy drone,
That ne'er at work is found.
That sings a merry song;
Formica is the busy ant
That labours late and long:
And vermis is the earth-worm
That crawls along the ground;
And fucus is the lazy drone,
That ne'er at work is found.
The hornet fierce is crabro,
And tinea the moth
That flies about the candle's flame;
And frets away your cloth;
And culex is the humming gnat,
And pulex is a flea;
I wish that neither of the twain
Would ever come to me.
And tinea the moth
That flies about the candle's flame;
And frets away your cloth;
And culex is the humming gnat,
And pulex is a flea;
I wish that neither of the twain
Would ever come to me.
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