"Diaphanous, roseate, Floating before us Butterflies … butterflies — Vibrations of the great Unknown."
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Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff, "Butterflies", in Quiet Waters (New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1921), p. 78
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