. Overheard in a garden. CS-J The Laurel frowned, ^^ T is as you say,And yet it cannot be gainsaid, Their Laurels are undimmed to-daySave by the Folly of that Your reasoning s false! exclaimed the Eose, * Your premises are falser yet;Your sentiment is all a pose! Besides — you are not in my set! MORAL Twixt Duty, here below, and Love,Alas ! we see a great gulf fixed; Perhaps they re Introduced Above,In Heaven, society is mixed. 14. A BUTTEEFLY OF FASHION A REAL Butterfly, I mean, With Orange-pointed saffron wingsAnd coat of inky Velveteen — None of your Fashion-plated Things That dang
. Overheard in a garden. CS-J The Laurel frowned, ^^ T is as you say,And yet it cannot be gainsaid, Their Laurels are undimmed to-daySave by the Folly of that Your reasoning s false! exclaimed the Eose, * Your premises are falser yet;Your sentiment is all a pose! Besides — you are not in my set! MORAL Twixt Duty, here below, and Love,Alas ! we see a great gulf fixed; Perhaps they re Introduced Above,In Heaven, society is mixed. 14. A BUTTEEFLY OF FASHION A REAL Butterfly, I mean, With Orange-pointed saffron wingsAnd coat of inky Velveteen — None of your Fashion-plated Things That dangle from the ApronstringsOf Mrs. Grundy — or you see Loll hy the Stage Door or the Wings,Or sadly flit from Tea to Tea. Not such a Butterfly was he; He lived for Sunshine and the Hour;He did not flit from Tea to Tea, But gayly flew from Flower to One Day there came a Thunder Shower — An Open Window he fluttered in; behold, a Flower ! An Azure Eose with petals wide. He did not linger to decide Which Flower ; there was no other calmly settled down inside That Rose, and no one said Beware ! There was no Friend to say, ^^ Take care ! How ever, then, could he suppose This Blossom, of such Color Eare,Was just an Artificial Eose ? All might have ended well — who knows ? -But just then some one chanced to say : ^ The very Latest Thing ! That RoseIn Paris is the Rage To-day^ No Eose of such a Tint outreWas
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