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Butterfly long flown, now settled\nTears I fight, happy her flight
\nBrought her to this – tears of loss
\nThat is my own, blame also!<\/p>\n
Butterfly long flown, now settled
\nTears I fight, happy her flight
\nBrought her to this – tears of loss
\nThat is my own, blame also!<\/p>\n
He who stays silent of his love
\nShall live to see another win hers
\nAnd rue his silence.<\/p>\n
But it is a day to be happy!
\nFor to love truly is to be happy –
\nAt the happiness of those you adored…
\nAnd move on… two lives, two roads to be walked
\nTill we all return to the dust from whence we came.<\/p>\n
The source of the “Lady of the Sweetest Smile” poems, a lady I loved who unbeknownst to herself has been something of a muse for me, has recently married another. As all true lovers should, I wish her and her new man well, and rue the wish that she who I dubbed “Butterfly” to myself, shall not have a fool such as I as father of her caterpillars!!! lol ;-D<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Butterfly long flown, now settled Tears I fight, happy her flight Brought her to this – tears of loss That is my own, blame also! He who stays silent of his love Shall live to see another win hers And rue his silence. 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