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Thread #94047 Message #1819431
Posted By: Charley Noble
26-Aug-06 - 11:37 AM
Thread Name: Verses: Martin Said to His Man
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Martin said to his man
Found it! The Rev. William Archibald Spooner is apparently the source of the lines:
"I Saw a Butterfly flutter by... Saw a Dragonfly drink a Flagon dry..."
As Spooner phrased it back in the late 19th century:
Now you see a butterfly Bright and nimbly flutter by, Followed by a dragonfly, As it drains its flagon dry...
Source: Richard Lederer, Maine Sunday Telegram, 8/31/97