Southey, also, in his lines addressed to this insect under the name of the Burnie-Bee, has thus elegantly described it:
Back o’er thy shoulders throw thy ruby shards,
With many a tiny coal-black freckle deck’d;
My watchful eye thy loitering saunter guards,
My ready hand thy footsteps shall protect.
So shall the fairy train, by glow-worm light,
With rainbow tints thy folding pennons fret,
Thy scaly breast in deeper azure dight,
Thy burnish’d armor deck’d with glossier jet.[26]