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  • 蝴蝶的葬礼(The Butterfly's Funeral)

    FRONTISPIECE.


    Psyche,
    transformed to a Butterfly.

    THE
    BUTTERFLY’S FUNERAL.

    A SEQUEL TO THE
    BUTTERFLY’s BALL and GRASSHOPPER’s FEAST.

    By J. L. B.

    For the soul of the Banquet the Butterfly’s dead

    And the Graſshopper mourns for the loſs of his friend

    And hark! to the funeral dirge of the Bee &c.

    The Mole is preparing the Butterfly’s grave

    The corse was embalmed at the set of the Sun &c.

    And ſix of their numbers ſupported the Pall

    The Dormouse attended but cold & forlorn &c.

    Bent over her body and silently kist her

    The Grub left his nutſhell to join the sad throng

    And wrote these few lines to be plac’d on his tomb

    EPITAPH
    TO THE
    MEMORY OF PAPILLON.

    At this solemn spot, where the green rushes wave,
    Here sadly we bent o’er the Butterfly’s grave;
    ’Twas here we to beauty our obsequies paid,
    And hallow’d the mound which her ashes have made.
    And here shall the daisy and violet blow,
    And the lily discover her bosom of snow;
    While under the leaf, in the evenings of spring,
    Still mourning her friend, shall the Grasshopper sing.