A MORAL 



FOR 



CAPTAIN BROWN'S BOOK OF BUTTERFLIES, 



BY 



CHARLES DOYNE SILLERY, ESQ. 



AUTHOR OF " VALLERY," &C. 



MINIONS of Nature ! Creatures of the skies ! 

 Ye bright- wing'd flutterers ! sunborn butterflies ! 

 From flower to flower o'er nectar'd fields ye go, 

 Peerless in beauty ! atoms of the bow ! 



Ye living gems ! ye fairy-formed things ! 

 Floating in bliss, on gold-bespangled wings ' 

 Oh ! how enraptured would this spirit be, 

 Freely to soar through ambient heavens, as ye ! 



Where is the silken shroud ? the grov'ling worm ? 

 Where now the veil which once enshrined each form 

 Where the cold, lifeless chrysalis of clay ? 

 In gold ! in glory ! in the blaze of day ! 

 VOL. III. B 



