by Sarojini Naidu (1879 - 1949)
Bright shower of lambent butterflies
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Language: English
Bright shower of lambent butterflies, Soft cloud of murmuring bees, O fragile storm of sighing leaves Adrift upon the breeze! Wild birds with eager wings outspread To seek an alien sky, Sweet comrades of a lyric spring. My little songs, good-bye!
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Sarojini Naidu, The Bird of Time: Songs of Life, Death & the Spring, London: William Heinemann, 1912, page 101.
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- by Sarojini Naidu (1879 - 1949), "Farewell", appears in The Bird of Time - Songs of Life, Death, and the Spring, in 4. Songs of Life, London: William Heinemann, first published 1912 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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