"Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough."
"The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow."
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Source: Joaquin Miller (1873). “Songs of the Sun-lands”, p.66
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