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The butterfly’s assumption-gown, In chrysoprase apartments hung, This afternoon put on. How condescending to descend, And be of buttercups the friend In a New England town !

The Butterfly upon the Sky, That doesn’t know its Name And hasn’t any tax to pay And hasn’t any Home Is just as high as you and I, And higher, I believe, So soar away and never sigh And that’s…

The butterfly obtains But little sympathy Though favorably mentioned In Entomology — Because he travels freely And wears a proper coat The circumspect are certain That he is dissolute — Had he the homely scutcheon Of modest Industry ‘Twere fitter…

The Butterfly in honored Dust Assuredly will lie But none will pass the Catacomb So chastened as the Fly —

The Bone that has no Marrow, What Ultimate for that? It is not fit for Table For Beggar or for Cat. A Bone has obligations — A Being has the same — A Marrowless Assembly Is culpabler than shame. But…

The Bobolink is gone — The Rowdy of the Meadow — And no one swaggers now but me — The Presbyterian Birds Can now resume the Meeting He boldly interrupted that overflowing Day When supplicating mercy In a portentous way…

The Blunder is in estimate. Eternity is there We say, as of a Station — Meanwhile he is so near He joins me in my Ramble — Divides abode with me — No Friend have I that so persists As…

A word is dead, when it is said Purple – is fashionable twice Let me first knowing be of thee As if some little Arctic flower Come slowly – Eden! When Continents expire The Blood is more showy than the…

Morning might come by Accident – Sister – Night comes by Event – To believe the final line of the Card would foreclose Faith – Faith is Doubt. Sister – Show me Eternity , and I will show you Memory…

Exhilaration is the Breeze That lifts us from the Ground And leaves us in another place Whose statement is not found — Returns us not, but after time We soberly descend A little newer for the term Upon Enchanted Ground…