Bates found on the Amazon a brilliant spider that spread itself
out as a flower, and the insects lighting upon it, seeking
sweetness, found horror, torment, death. Such transformations
are common in human life; things of poison and blood are
everywhere displaying themselves in forms of innocence, in dyes
of beauty. The perfection of mimicry is in the moral world,
deceiving the very elect. (Text.)--W. L. WATKINSON,
“The Transfigured Sackcloth.”
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