Poems (Dorr)/Butterfly and Baby Blue

by Julia Caroline Dorr

BUTTERFLY AND BABY BLUE

Butterfly and Baby Blue,
 Did you come together
Floating 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!