Sonnets and Songs

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</SPAN></span></p> <h3>XXXI</h3> <h3><i>Butterfly Words</i></h3> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Butterfly words from the sun in my brain,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Flitting and darting and flitting again,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Gleaming of golden and violet and rose,<br/></span> <span class="i0">What is the rainbow you spring from, and where?<br/></span> <span class="i2">Butterflies daintily poise and disclose,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Whence is this secret of color you bear?<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Sun that is ruddy and fragrant with flowers,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Garnered and hid from these desolate hours,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Misty with beauty, the silver of spring&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Ah, for the ways that are lost to my feet!<br/></span> <span class="i2">Only the dip of the butterfly wing,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Poised for a moment, revives me the sweet.<br/></span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />