Posthumous Poems/To James McNeil Whistler

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TO JAMES McNEIL WHISTLER

Fly away, butterfly, back to Japan,Tempt not a pinch at the hand of a man, And strive not to sting ere you die away.So pert and so painted, so proud and so pretty,To brush the bright down from your wings were a pity— Fly away, butterfly, fly away!
 1888.
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