This beautiful comparison is taken from "The Naturalist on the River Amazons." "Vast numbers of orange-colored butterflies congregated on the moist sands. They assembled in densely-packed masses, sometimes two or three yards in circumference, their wings all held in an upright position, so that the sands looked as though variegated with _beds of crocuses_." THE END. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II., by Jean Ingelow