May not our hopes of immortality,
That deep within us dwell—
Instinctive to the soul, and more and more
Insistent to the heart—may not they be
Soul-echoes of the swell
That ceaseless beats on an eternal shore?
(1536)
IMMORTALITY, A SYMBOL OF
This apostrophe to a butterfly was written by Alice Freeman Palmer:
I hold you at last in my hand,