The Butterfly by Joseph Skipsey. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

The Butterfly

Joseph Skipsey (b. 1832)


THE BUTTERFLY from flower to flower
The urchin chas’d; and, when at last
He caught it in my lady’s bower,
He cried, “Ha, ha!” and held it fast.

Awhile he laugh’d, but soon he wept,	5
When looking at the prize he’d caught
He found he had to ruin swept
The very glory he had sought.