THREE AGES OF GIRL.
[For the Observer.]
A maid is like a butterfly ; three states she has. At first the caterpillar, creeping thing That eats .and sleeps a,nd eats the live-long day. The school-girl follows; like the crysalis Hid/ in a shell away from vulgar gaze Of all mankind 1 , white wings and tentacles Grow unobserved. Anon her shell she breaks, And bursting forth upon a startled world A vision wondering and wonderful. Fickle, alas! she flits from flower to flower, O'er each for one brief moment hovering. Perchance she settles on a fresh young bud That bends his stem beneath the loving burthen; Then off to some more fragrant, brighter bloom, And leaves behind her blossoms crushed and bent That never more may rear a joyous head! To drink in heaven's bright sunshine. RuFtrs.
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Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 46, 24 July 1915, Page 11
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135THREE AGES OF GIRL. Observer, Volume XXXV, Issue 46, 24 July 1915, Page 11
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