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  - Showed crumbling ruins, ghostly and white,  
  Old forgotten nations’s tombs.  
  Then wisely the beetle winked his eye ;  
  The cricket grew staid and still,  
  The butterliy, in his great surprise, ,  
  \’Vent sailing over the hill ;  
  The beetle scramble beneath his stone,   .,_r  
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