Thou dost mistake me; but I pray thee, tell me what dost thou seek in these woods? CLOWN.

What is it thou wouldst seek?

Nay, rather didst thou stretch thine eager hands In blind unreason forth, to lay them swift Upon the golden prize, although I cried, "'Tis Death that thou dost grasp at!"Take it, then, That prize that thou so stubbornly didst seek, Even Death!

Not without thee the streamsthere the Dull seek them;No!

They said to her: "Never was seen so sweet a flower, In garden, vale, or fairy bower; The moon is on thy lovely face, Thy cypress-form is full of grace; But why, with charms so soft and meek, Dost thou the lonely forest seek?

The blind seek for a guide; we wander about without a guide.

Or if within the soul the vision bright Of her celestial home once more doth steal, Drawing our better thoughts with pure appeal To the true Good above all mortal sight: This light I long for and unguided seek; This fire that burns my heart, I cannot find; Nor know the way, though some one seems to lead.

Or let him through the far Steppes gallop, His horse can scarcely stand at all His stamping hoofs in vain seek foothold, The rider dreading lest he fall!

Ay, ay; nought seek, nought have: An ill-husband is the first step to a knave.

Crustacea are also numerous; blue and green Gonodactyli leap about with a sharp clicking noiselegions of Mycteris subverrucata traverse the dry sands at low-waterand in the shallow muddy pools, dull green Thalamitae and Lupeae swim off rapidly, and smooth Calappae seek refuge by burrowing under the surface.