The little Butter-cup can sing,
From morn‘ till night like anything.
The quacking of the Butter-ball,
Cannot be called a song at all.
We thus the flower may learn to know,
Its song is reproduced below.
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The Butter-ball. The Butter-cup. · Robert Williams Wood · Poetry Cove