Comments on: Praying Mantis and the hoard of Hoppers http://www.mylittlesoapbox.net/2008/09/10/praying-mantis-and-the-hoard-of-hoppers/ Welcome to my little corner of the internet! Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:48:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: juliecache http://www.mylittlesoapbox.net/2008/09/10/praying-mantis-and-the-hoard-of-hoppers/comment-page-1/#comment-572 juliecache Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:21:19 +0000 http://www.mylittlesoapbox.net/?p=645#comment-572 We had a mantis like that at my family's homeplace, which is probably a lot like yours. The Praying Mantis by Ogden Nash From whence arrived the praying mantis? From outer space, or lost Atlantis? glimpse the grin, green metal mug at masks the pseudo-saintly bug, Orthopterous, also carnivorous, And faintly whisper, Lord deliver us. We had a mantis like that at my family’s homeplace, which is probably a lot like yours.

The Praying Mantis by Ogden Nash

From whence arrived the praying mantis?
From outer space, or lost Atlantis?
glimpse the grin, green metal mug
at masks the pseudo-saintly bug,
Orthopterous, also carnivorous,
And faintly whisper, Lord deliver us.

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