And these fiery chariots of modernity, with their ghoulish, fur-garbed, and hideously spectacled occupants, once their raucous, cigale-like birr-r-r has died away in the distance, leave infinitely less impression on the placid life of Versailles than do their wheels on the roads they traverse.

Corbeaux, La Cigale chez les Fourmis.]

and how it expresses that joy in the present and recklessness of the morrow, which the fabulist has in vain contrasted with the virtuous industry of the ant in order to point a moral for mankind!vainly, because the cigale's short life in the sunlit trees will ever seem to men a more ideal one than that of the earth-burrowing ant, with its possible longevity, its peevish parsimony, and restless anxiety for the future.

Mickey presente: La cigale et

Mickey presente: La cigale et

Mickey presente: La cigale et

Mickey presente: La cigale et

Nothing prettier than La Cigale at the Lyric Theatre has been seen in London for a very long time.