and had already made a show of a hole in the cabbage-leaf. They had
broken from the Butterfly's eggs!

Shame and amazement filled our green friend's heart, but joy soon
followed; for, as the first wonder was possible, the second might
be so too. "Teach me your lesson, Lark!" she would say; and the
Lark sang to her of the wonders of the earth below and of the
heaven above. And the Caterpillar talked all the rest of her life
to her relations of the time when she should be a Butterfly.

But none of them believed her. She nevertheless had learnt the
Lark's lesson of faith, and when she was going into her chrysalis
grave, she said--

"I shall be a Butterfly some day!"

But her relations thought her head was wandering, and they said,
"Poor thing!"

And when she was a Butterfly, and was going to die again, she
said--

"I have known many wonders--I have faith--I can trust even now
for what shall come next!"



THE DRAGON-FLY AND THE WATER-LILY

By Carl Ewald