“I'd be a butterfly born in a bower,
Where roses and lilies and violets meet.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839) English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer
I'd be a Butterfly, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Doth logic in the lily hide,
And where's the reason in the rose?”
The Door of Humility (1906)
Source: "Rome", XLI, line 11; p. 116.
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