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Title: The Butterfly's Funeral
A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball and Grasshopper's Feast

Author: J. L. B.

Illustrator: A Lady

Release Date: August 1, 2007 [EBook #22201]

Language: English

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[Illustration: _Psyche_, transformed to a Butterfly.]

THE
BUTTERFLY'S FUNERAL.

A sequel to the
_BUTTERFLY's BALL and GRASSHOPPER's FEAST_.

By J. L. B.

The Embellishments designed and engraved
BY A LADY.

_LONDON_:
PRINTED FOR JOHN WALLIS JUN.,
_At the Universal Juvenile Library
& original Dissected-Map Warehouse_,
Removed from Ludgate-street, to
No. 188, STRAND,
(Next Door to the Crown-and-Anchor Tavern).

1808.

Brettell and Co. Printers, Marshall-Street, Golden-Square.

The Butterfly's Funeral.

Oh, ye, who so lately were blythesome and gay,
At the Butterfly's Banquet, carousing away;
Your feasts and your revels of pleasure are fled,
For the soul of the Banquet, the Butterfly's dead.

No longer the Flies and the Emmets advance,
To join with their friends in the Grasshopper's dance;
For see, his thin form o'er the favourite bend,
And the Grasshopper mourns for the loss of his friend.

And hark, to the funeral dirge of the Bee,
And the Beetle who follows as solemn as he;
And see, where so mournful the green rushes wave,
The Mole is preparing the Butterfly's grave.

The Dormouse attended, but cold and forlorn;
And the Gnat slowly winded his shrill little horn;
And the Moth, who was gri