StoryTitle("caps", "The Butterfly and the Bee") ?>
Butterfly and the Bee," by William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850), is
recommended by some school-girls. It carries a lesson in favour of
the worker.
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Methought I heard a butterfly", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Say to a labouring bee:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Thou hast no colours of the sky", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On painted wings like me.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Poor child of vanity! those dyes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And colours bright and rare,\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With mild reproof, the bee replies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Are all beneath my care.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Content I toil from morn to eve,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And scorning idleness,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To tribes of gaudy sloth I leave", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The vanity of dress.\"", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("William Lisle Bowles.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>