Shame and amazement filled the green caterpillar's heart, but joy soon followed. For as the first wonder was possible, the second might be so too.
“Teach me your lesson, lark,” she cried.
And the lark sang to her of the wonders of the earth below and of the heaven above. And the caterpillar talked all the rest of her life of the time when she should become a butterfly.
But no one believed her. She nevertheless had learned the lark's lesson of faith, and when she was going into her chrysalis, she said:—
“I shall be a butterfly some day!”
But her relations thought her head was wandering, and they said, “Poor thing!”
And when she was a butterfly, and was going to die she said:—
“I have known many wonders,—I HAVE FAITH,—I can trust even now for the wonder that shall come next.”