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FIRST FAIRY. home and haunt are in every leaf, Whose life is a summer day, bright and brief,— I live in the depths of the tulip's bower, I wear a wreath of the cistus flower, I drink the dew of the blue harebell, I know the breath of the violet well,— The white and the azure violet; But I know not which is the sweetest yet,— I have kiss'd the cheek of the rose, I have watched the lily unclose, My silver mine is the almond tree, Who will come dwell with flower and me?

CHORUS OF FAIRIES. Dance we our round, 'tis a summer night, And our steps are led by the glow-worms' light.

SECOND FAIRY. My dwelling is in the serpentine Of the rainbow's colour'd line,—