THE BOY, THE MOTHER, AND THE BUTTERFLY Young William held the Butterfly in chase, And it was pretty to observe the race Betwixt the Fly and Child, who nigh had caught him

" He kissed her lightly, perking up her shoulder butterflies of green sequins, and standing off to observe.

" "There is among us," I rejoined, "a saying about 'breaking a butterfly on the wheel'as if one spoke of driving away the tiny birds that nestle and feed in your flowers with a hammer.

" "Sir," said a large, dull-looking Butterfly with one wing in tatters, crawling from under a cabbage, and limping by reason of the deficiency of several legs, "let me entreat you not to deduce our scientific status from the inconsiderate assertions of the unthinking vulgar.

Its syllogistic hardness was repellant, but I dare say it preserved a gorgeous butterfly from utter extinction.

THE GRASS The grass so little has to do, A sphere of simple green, With only butterflies to brood, And bees to entertain, And stir all day to pretty tunes

Powers of the air will sweep across continents to rescue it from prison, soft gales travel from south to north to sow seeds of beauty in its narrow ways, and little songs will flutter like butterflies for hundreds of miles to cheer its heart.

A soulless ephemera she, with no ambitions or aspirations, save that, having quitted the grub stage, she desires to be as brilliant a butterfly as possible.

The bees and butterflies at last Are tired out; for just think, too, How many gardens through the day Their little wings have fluttered through.

The moonlight poured dazzlingly upon the white marble basin, and on the figure of a nymph who bent above it, delicately poised like a butterfly about to take wing.

Those killing bows which you deliberately fabricated and lodged like bright butterflies among the dark waves of your hairwho were you thinking of as you made and posed them?

I'm anxious to put the Golden Butterfly through all her paces.

"Not a chance," admitted Roy cheerfully, "but they'll turn after a while, I guess, and then we'll try the Butterfly against the Cobweb.

It is as though a tired man set out to make a butterfly out of cardboard and gum and powdered silks; it would be nothing when it was made.

We ranged o'er the meadow, the forest, and bowers, Picked berries for mother, and gathered wild flowers, Dear brother, how oft by the rosebush we sat, While you caught the butterflies under your hat.

Swiftly she mentally selected the spot where she would land, and then down shot the Golden Butterfly like a pouncing fish hawk.

Could he have been ignorant that ours is, in general, greater than the Periclean for the very reason that the Divinity is neither the devil nor a bungler; that three thousand years of human consciousness is not nothing; that a whole is greater than its part, and a butterfly than a chrysalis?

And I asked instead why some of the poets were idle and were watching butterflies without being beaten.

(His boyish passion had, indeed, swept over me as lightly as the wing of a butterfly across a rose.

If we turn back now, it would look as if we were afraid to trust the Butterfly above the ocean, and, after all, it is a naval contest that we hope to be elected for.

The butterfly beside the road Preaches contentment to that toad.

There were no butterflies between its pages, nor was it presented to us by fair or gracious hands.

The fishing-skiffs of Chioggia fluttered like gaudy butterflies before them, dipping their wings of orange and crimson and every conceivable sunset tint to catch the breeze; and the air was suddenly vibrant with sounds of traffic and busy life.

Worship of Wagner transformed the butterfly into a new woman.

While thou, a friend and playmate always gay, Like to a light and brilliant butterfly Around a dusky flower, didst day by day Around me with new life thy gambols urge, And breathe thy joyous spirit in my soul, Until, my cares forgetting, I with thee Was lur'd to snatch the eager joys of youth.