Happy Spring!!!

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To a Butterfly

by William Wordsworth, The Eternal Romantic

STAY NEAR me - do not take thy flight!

A little longer stay in sight!

Much converse do I find in thee,

Historian of my infancy!

Float near me; do not yet depart!

Dead times revive in thee:

Thou bring'st, gay creatue as thou art!

A solemn image to my heart,

My father's family!

Oh! pleasant, pleasant were the days,

The time, when in our childish plays,

My sister Emmeline and I

Together chased the butterfly!

A very hunter did I rush

Upon the prey; - with leaps and springs

I followed on from brake to bush;

But she, God love her! feared to brush

The dust from off its wings.