Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY. 1797—1839- A MAN of the world and a poet, with a versatile prolific fancy,and an exquisite sensibility of the graceful and the beautiful, is notto be despised. Baylys songs stir the fancy and rouse the feeling,they were never intended to appeal to the understanding. Wecannot blame the butterfly because it is not an eagle, or the applebecause it is not a nectarine. i-^ v^ rU BE A BUTTERP^LY, BORN IN A BOWER. Id be a Butterfly, born in a bo
Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY. 1797—1839- A MAN of the world and a poet, with a versatile prolific fancy,and an exquisite sensibility of the graceful and the beautiful, is notto be despised. Baylys songs stir the fancy and rouse the feeling,they were never intended to appeal to the understanding. Wecannot blame the butterfly because it is not an eagle, or the applebecause it is not a nectarine. i-^ v^ rU BE A BUTTERP^LY, BORN IN A BOWER. Id be a Butterfly, born in a bower Where roses and lilies and violets meet;Roving for ever from flower to flower. And kissing all buds that are pretty and sweet !Id never languish for wealth or for power ; Id never sigh to sec slaves at my feet :Id be a Butterfly, born in a bower. Kissing all buds that are pretty and sweet. O could I pilfer the wand of a fairy, Id have a pair of those beautiful wings :Their summer-days ramble is sportive and airy, They sleep in a rose when the nightingale who have wealth must be watchful and wary; Power, alas ! no
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