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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538908" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come take up your Hats, and away let us haste<br>To the Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast.<br>The Trumpeter, Gad-fly, has summon'd the Crew,<br>And the Revels are now only waiting for you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So said little Robert, and pacing along,<br>His merry Companions came forth in a Throng.<br>And on the smooth Grass, by the side of a Wood,<br>Beneath a broad Oak that for Ages had stood,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Saw the Children of Earth, and the Tenants of Air,<br>For an Evening's Amusement together repair.<br>And there came the Beetle, so blind and so black,<br>Who carried the Emmet, his Friend, on his Back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there was the Gnat and the Dragon-fly too,<br>With all their Relations, Green, Orange, and Blue.<br>And there came the Moth, with his Plumage of Down,<br>And the Hornet in Jacket of Yellow and Brown;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who with him the Wasp, his Companion, did bring,<br>But they promis'd, that Evening, to lay by their Sting.<br>And the sly little Dormouse crept out of his Hole,<br>And brought to the Feast his blind Brother, the Mole.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the Snail, with his Horns peeping out of his Shell,<br>Came from a great Distance, the Length of an Ell.<br>A Mushroom their Table, and on it was laid<br>A Water-dock Leaf, which a Table-cloth made.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Viands were various, to each of their Taste,<br>And the Bee brought her Honey to crown the Repast.<br>Then close on his Haunches, so solemn and wise,<br>The Frog from a Corner, look'd up to the Skies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the Squirrel well pleas'd such Diversions to see,<br>Mounted high over Head, and look'd down from a Tree.<br>Then out came the Spider, with Finger so fine,<br>To shew his Dexterity on the tight Line.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From one Branch to another, his Cobwebs he slung,<br>Then quick as an Arrow he darted along,<br>But just in the Middle, -- Oh! shocking to tell,<br>From his Rope, in an Instant, poor Harlequin fell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet he touch'd not the Ground, but with Talons outspread,<br>Hung suspended in Air, at the End of a Thread,<br>Then the Grasshopper came with a Jerk and a Spring,<br>Very long was his Leg, though but short was his Wing;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He took but three Leaps, and was soon out of Sight,<br>Then chirp'd his own Praises the rest of the Night.<br>With Step so majestic the Snail did advance,<br>And promis'd the Gazers a Minuet to dance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But they all laugh'd so loud that he pull'd in his Head,<br>And went in his own little Chamber to Bed.<br>Then, as Evening gave Way to the Shadows of Night,<br>Their Watchman, the Glow-worm, came out with a Light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Home let us hasten, while yet we can see,<br>For no Watchman is waiting for you and for me.<br>So said little Robert, and pacing along,<br>His merry Companions returned in a Throng.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Roscoe">William Roscoe</a><div class=q>
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To the Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast.
The Trumpeter, Gad-fly, has summon'd the Crew,
And the Revels are now only waiting for you.

So said little Robert, and pacing along,
His merry Com..."></div>
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