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Once Upon a Time and Other Child-Verses

by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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Butterflies

If we, my deary, were butterflies, with pur-

ple winglets and golden eyes,

We would not adore the roses alway, and no-

body else, on a sunny day.

If we, my baby, were butterflies, with purple winglets and golden eyes,

Far away, far away, over land or sea, we would come to the honey we love in thee.

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