The Butterfly—An Allegory. From the French of Alphonse de Lamartine

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Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 16:797, 224, 5 April 1879.

First line

Born with the spring, to die when droops the rose

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Notes and attribution research

Chambers’s Journal ledger indicates that Sergt. Alex Logie was paid 10s 6d for the poem (NLS Dep 341/371; 341/294). (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 7049

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