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[When I saw the fallen flower return to the branch—lo! it was only a butterfly!]

[How the butterfly strives to compete in lightness with the falling flowers!]

[See that butterfly on the woman's path,—now fluttering behind her, now before!]

[Ha! the butterfly!-it is following the person who stole the flowers!]

[Poor autumn butterfly! when left without a comrade (of its own race), it follows after man (or "a person")!] 註