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NCE on a warm and unhine day, No matter when or where, A foppih gaudy butterfly Sat buking on a flow’r,

Chear’d by the olar genial ray, He thus indulg’d his ong: Let miers hoard their ueles wealth, For gold their cares prolong;

Let other folks with anxious care, Such as the ant and bee, Spend all their time providing for The days they ne’er may ee.

For me among thoe beauteous flow’rs Myelf as fair as they, Devoid of care I’ll pend each day, In dancing, ong, and play.

A buy bee that rode that way, To gather liquid weet, With nimble wing and humming drone The butterfly did meet. With