How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and other wood-cuts/The Pansy; The Chim-pansy

by Robert Williams Wood

Observe how Nature's necromancies
Have clearly painted on the Pansies,
These almost human counten-ances,
In yellow, blue and black nu-ances.
The face however seems to me
To be that of the Chim-pan-zee:
A fact that makes the gentle Pansy,
Appeal no longer to my fancy.