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Butterfly.

Robert Crawford

In the fierce light the butterfly wings free -
So delicate, and yet so fibred to
Withstand the stress a giant would faint under.




Quotes of the Day

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
• Abraham Lincoln


Poems of the Day
  • Vachel Lindsay
    Niagara
    by Vachel Lindsay
    I Within the town of Buffalo Are prosy men with leaden eyes. Like ants they worry to and fro, (Important men, in Buffalo.) But only twenty miles away A deathless glory is at play: Niagara, Niagara.