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by Unknown

Death gazed, and left it there. He dared not steal

The signet ring of heaven.

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A BUTTERFLY ON A CHILD’S GRAVE.

BUTTERFLY basked on a baby’s grave,

Where a lily had chanced to grow;

“Why art thou here, with thy gaudy dye,

When she of the blue and sparkling eye

Must sleep in the churchyard low?”