The bashful earthquake & other fables and verses . NE day a Poppy, just in play,Said to a butterfly, Go way,Go way, you naughty thing ! Oh, my!But you re a bold bad butterfly ! Of course t was only said in fun,He was a perfect paragon —In every way a spotless thing(Save for two spots upon his wing). But tho his morals were the best,He could not understand a jest;And somehow what the Poppy saidPut ideas in his little head,And soon he really came to wishHe were the least bit *^ devilish.^15 «_, 1. then affected manners roughAnd strained his voice to make it gruff,And scowled as who should say ^
The bashful earthquake & other fables and verses . NE day a Poppy, just in play,Said to a butterfly, Go way,Go way, you naughty thing ! Oh, my!But you re a bold bad butterfly ! Of course t was only said in fun,He was a perfect paragon —In every way a spotless thing(Save for two spots upon his wing). But tho his morals were the best,He could not understand a jest;And somehow what the Poppy saidPut ideas in his little head,And soon he really came to wishHe were the least bit *^ devilish.^15 «_, 1. then affected manners roughAnd strained his voice to make it gruff,And scowled as who should say ^ Beware,I am a dangerous d best not fool with me, for I —I am a bold, bad butter%. He hung around the wildest flowers,And kept the most unseemly hours,With dragonflies and drunken bees,And learned to say • ^ By Jove ! with his pious friends, aghast,Exclaimed, He s getting awflly fast!
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