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 392 THE CATERPILLAR AND THE BUTTERFLY

(By José Rosas Moreno. Translated by William Cullen Bryant.)

THE SPIDER'S WEB

DEXTROUS Spider chose

&ensp;The delicate blossom of a garden rose

Whereon to plant and bind

The net he framed to take the insect kind.

And when his task was done.

Proud of the cunning lines his art had spun,

He said, "I take my stand

Close by my work, and watch what I have planned.