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I know an entomologist / Who thinks it not a sin / To catch a harmless butterfly, / And stick it, with a pin, / Upon a piece of paper white, / And underneath the same, / In letters large and plain, to write / The creature's Latin name.
I know another little man / Who catches, now and then, / A microscopic little thought / And goads it, with a pen, / To rhyme, until we wonder quite / How it can keep so tame, / And why he never fails to write / Beneath (in _full_) his name.
If you should ask me to decide / The which of them I'd rate / The greater torment of the two / I should not hesitate.
It's wicked with a pin to bore / A butterfly -- but then, / I loathe the other fellow more, / Who bores me with his pen.