Poems (Dorr)/Butterfly and Baby Blue
BUTTERFLY AND BABY BLUE
Butterfly and Baby Blue, Did you come togetherFloating down the summer skies, In the summer weather?Seems to me you're much alike, Airy, fairy creatures,Though I small resemblance find In your tiny features!
Butterfly has gauzy wings, Bright with jewelled splendor;Baby Blue has pink-white arms, Rosy, warm, and tender.Butterfly has golden rings, Charming each beholder;Baby wears a knot of blue On each dimpled shoulder.
Butterfly is never still, Always in a flutter;And of dainty Baby Blue The same truth I utter!Butterfly on happy wing In the sunshine dances;Baby Blue for sunshine has Mother's smiles and glances!
Butterfly seeks honey-dew In a lily palace;Baby Blue finds nectar sweet In a snow-white chalice.Butterfly will furl its wings When the air grows colder;While dear Baby Blue will be Just a trifle older!
Ah! the days are growing short, Soon the birds will leave us,And of all the garden flowers Cruel frost bereave us.Butterfly and Baby Blue, Do not go together,Sailing through the autumn skies In the autumn weather!