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Beside the old hall-fire -- upon my nurse's knee, / Of happy fairy days -- what tales were told to me!
I thought the world was once -- all peopled with princesses, / And my heart would beat to hear -- their loves and their distresses: / And many a quiet night, -- in slumber sweet and deep, / The pretty fairy people -- would visit me in sleep.