Surely 't is better, when summer is over
To die when all fair things are fading away.


I'd be a Butterfly, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.

Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.

Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.

Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.