SWEET painted flutt’rer! often have I view’d
Thy sportive gambols in the blue serene;
And frequently indulg’d the pensive mood,
Beholding what thou art, and what hast been:
For once unsightly crawling on the earth,
With sad and sluggish pace, I saw thee move;
Until, emerging from a second birth,
Thy active pinions scal’d the vault above:
Just so our own immortal spirits dwell,
Just so entomb’d are all our embryo pow’rs,
Until the ripen’d fruit resigns its shell,
When endless life and liberty are ours:
Thou, active ranger of the azure sky,
Art but a picture of humanity.
(Elizabeth Bath)
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