A MORAL 
FOR 
CAPTAIN BROWN’S BOOK OF BUTTERFLIES, 
oe 
CHARLES DOYNE SILLERY, ESQ. 
AUTHOR or “ vaLLery,” &c. 
Minions of Nature !—Creatures of the skies ! 
Ye bright-wing’d flutterers! sunborn butterflies ! 
From flower to flower o’er nectar’ 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 2 
Where the cold, lifeless chrysalis of clay ? 
In gold! in glory! in the blaze of day ! 
“VOL. III. B 
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