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THE WAYS OF TIME by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: AS BUTTERFLIES ARE BUT WINGED FLOWERS
Last Line: ON THE OLD THINGS I LOVE.
Subject(s): TIME;
AS butterflies are but winged flowers,
Half sorry for their change, who fain,
So still and long they lie on leaves,
Would be thought flowers again --

E'en so my thoughts, that should expand,
And grow to higher themes above,
Return like butterflies to lie
On the old things I love.



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