O’er folded blooms
On swirls of musk,
The beetle booms adown the glooms
And bumps along the dusk.
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The Beetle.James Whitcomb Riley
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Skirting the rocks at the forest edge
With a running flame from ledge to ledge,
Or swaying deeper in shadowy glooms,
A smoldering fire in her dusky blooms;
Bronzed and molded by wind and sun,
Maddening, gladdening every one
With a gypsy beauty full and fine,—
A health to the crimson columbine!Elaine Goodale Eastman
A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man — the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name,
And I called him Alexander and he answered just the same.
I put him in a matchbox, and I kept him all the day...A. A. Milne
Welcome, kindred glooms!
Congenial horrors, hail!James Thomson
My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
David Foster Wallace
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