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/ I. There be Fairies bright of eye, / Who the wild-flowers warders are; / There be Fairies subtlely / Nourished in a blossom's star; / Fairies tripping merrily / Singing in faint echoes far, / Singing fairy melodies / Murmured by the burly bees, / By the wild brown bees.
/ II. Well I wot that Fairies be there, -- / Fairies, Fairies that at eve / Lurking in a blossom-lair, / In some rose-bud's scented hair / From white beams of starlight weave / Glinting gown and shining shoe. / I have proven sure and true / Fairies be there, fays of dew, / Lying laughing in its spark / Floating in a rose's sark; / Singing fairy melodies, / When asleep the dusty bees / Can not steal their melodies, / Fairy melodies.