locust quotes

   And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Joel 2:25.

and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.

-William Carlos Williams
  Paterson, bk.3,'The Library'.