"The gold-barr'd butterflies to and fro And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow."
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Joaquin Miller, Songs of the Sun-Lands, Isles of the Amazons, Part III, Stanza 41.
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