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StoryTitle("caps", "The Fairy Queen") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(34, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come follow, follow me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You fairy elves that be;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which circle on the green,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come follow Mab your queen.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hand in hand let's dance around,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For this place is fairy ground.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When mortals are at rest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And snoring in their nest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unheard and unespied ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Through keyholes we do glide; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over tables, stools and shelves, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We trip it with our fairy elves.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if the house be foul ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With platter, dish or bowl, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upstairs we nimbly creep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And find the sluts asleep;", "") ?>
PagePoem(35, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There we pinch their arms and thighs;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "None escapes, nor none espies.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But if the house be swept, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And from uncleanness kept, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We praise the household maid, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And duly she is paid;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For we use before we go", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To drop a tester in her shoe.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon a mushroom's head ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our tablecloth is spread; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A grain of rye or wheat", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is manchet, which we eat; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pearly drops of dew we drink ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In acorn cups filled to the brink.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The grasshopper, gnat and fly, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Serve for our minstrelsy; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Grace said, we dance awhile ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And so the time beguile;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And if the moon doth hide her head, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The glowworm lights us home to bed.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On tops of dewy grass ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So nimbly do we pass, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The young and tender stalk ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne'er bends when we do walk; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet in the morning may be seen ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where we the night before have been.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", ConcatText("From ", SmallCapsText("Percy's \"Reliques.\""))) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>