The Peacock 'At Home:': A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball

By Catherine Ann Turner Dorset

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 10, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066224943

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Catherine Ann Turner Dorset

The Peacock 'At Home:'

A Sequel to the Butterfly's Ball

Published by Good Press, 2019

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EAN 4064066224943

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PEACOCK AT HOME.

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The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feasts

Excited the spleen of the Birds and the Beasts:

For their mirth and good cheer—of the Bee was the theme,

And the Gnat blew his horn, as he danc’d in the beam.

’Twas humm’d by the Beetle, ’twas buzz’d by the Fly,

And sung by the myriads that sport through the sky.

The Quadrupeds listen’d with sullen displeasure,

But the tenants of air were enraged beyond measure.

The Peacock