The Exquisite Adonis Blue

The Adonis Blue, loveliest of all the blue butterflies and rivalled only, perhaps, by the White Admiral as a thing of delicate wonder in flight, lending its  grace to the beauty of the chalk uplands of southern England. This is the butterfly of our joyous childhood excursions to Hod Hill, where, I hope, it will continue to flourish long after the footprints of rapacious men fade from view. LJ 

 

Cicero

Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.” Cicero

“How true those words are, even to-day!”LJ

Faust

From the Russon & Russon chrestomathy, a text by George Santayana from Three Philosophical Poets