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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BUTTERFLY AND THE BEE, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought I heard a butterfly
Last Line: "the vanity of dress."
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Vanity
First Line: Methought I heard a butterfly
Last Line: "the vanity of dress."
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Vanity
METHOUGHT I heard a butterfly
Say to a labouring bee:
"Thou hast no colours of the sky
On painted wings like me."
"Poor child of vanity! those dyes,
And colours bright and rare,"
With mild reproof, the bee replies,
"Are all beneath my care.
"Content I toil from morn to eve,
And scorning idleness,
To tribes of gaudy sloth I leave
The vanity of dress."
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