I Write About The Butterfly

Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott

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'I write about the butterfly,
It is a pretty thing;
And flies about like the birds,
But it does not sing.'First it is a little grub,
And then it is a nice yellow cocoon,
And then the butterfly
Eats its way out soon.'They live on dew and honey,
They do not have any hive,
They do not sting like wasps, and bees, and hornets,
And to be as good as they are we should strive.
Louisa May Alcott
About the poet

Louisa May Alcott

As A.M. Barnard: Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power (1866)The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation (1867)A Long Fatal Love Chase (1866 – first published 1995)First published anonymously:A Modern Mephistopheles (1877)Louisa May Alcott was born in Ger…

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