Summer rest . LARVA BOUT this matter of June there Is a great deal to be said on both sides. June has a great reputation, — June, beloved of youth and maidens, — June, dear to poets. What is so rare as a day in June!Then if ever come perfect days, or something like that, sighs the knight of Laun-fals, and all June-lovers swell the chorus; butJune has another side to her shield that shineswith a different and a less lustrous light. Juneroses have woven wreathes for many a lay, but Iwent out to my rose-bushes this morning, after afew days absence, and behold ! havoc and ravage ;for del
Summer rest . LARVA BOUT this matter of June there Is a great deal to be said on both sides. June has a great reputation, — June, beloved of youth and maidens, — June, dear to poets. What is so rare as a day in June!Then if ever come perfect days, or something like that, sighs the knight of Laun-fals, and all June-lovers swell the chorus; butJune has another side to her shield that shineswith a different and a less lustrous light. Juneroses have woven wreathes for many a lay, but Iwent out to my rose-bushes this morning, after afew days absence, and behold ! havoc and ravage ;for delicate green leaves, only wiry skeletons,from w^hich life and loveliness had departed. Nearthe ground, to the brown, mottled stalk clung thecause, — a great gluttonous caterpillar, full to thebrim of pulpy parenchyma, and dreaming his dulllarvic dreams in stupid satisfaction. A whiskingstick soon snapped him off into space ; but will my LARVA LESSONS. 63 rose-buds be able to grow into full-blown beautywith lungs so frigh
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