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RECORD

1. I thought I heard a butterfly

2. Say to a laboring bee:

3. "You have no colors of the sky

4. On painted wings like me."

5. "Poor child of vanity¹! Those dyes

6. And colors bright and rare,"

7. With mild scolding, the bee replies,

8. "Are all beneath my care.

9. Content I work from morn to eve,

10. And hating idleness²

11. To tribes of showy sloth³ I leave

12. The vanity of dress."

Meanings

1. vanity: pride

2 idleness: doing nothing

3 sloth: laziness

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