Can this, with faded pinion, soar From rose to tulip, as before?

Or beauty, blightedd in an hour, Find peace within her broken bower

No; gayer insects fluttering by,

Ne'er droop the wing o'er those that die.

a   And lovelier things have mercy shown, To ev'ry failing but their; own

And ev'ry woe a, tear may claim, Except an erring sister's shame,"

The second genus is distinguished by the name of Sphinx, fromm a fanciedd resemblance, i the attitude of their caterpillars, to that of the Egyptian sphinx, caused by fixing the hinder part of their body to a branch of ~t tree, and holding the fore-part erect. Many of the spin their web, compounding with it small parcels of earth and grains of corn They are popularly called Hawk-moths, and mostly ha,~Yc a large thorax and thick body,

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tapering towards the extrethity. The flight
f the larger kinds s s either early in to morn
ig, o ° filer sun-set : tii yx y sluggishly, often
uttering a, kind of sound. They suck the
nectar of flowers with their tongues, though
they seldom settle long p then , Some of
tl c m sic; very beautiful, but, as I fear that
you well he tired- of descriptions, I shall select
oily the Sphinx .atrgpos,, as befit g,d s ng sl e .
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