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S I lay awake in the white moonlight, I heard a faint singing in the wood,
 * "Out of bed,
 * Sleepyhead,
 * Put your white foot, now;
 * Here are we
 * Beneath the tree
 * Singing round the root now."

I looked out of window, in the white moonlight, The leaves were like snow in the wood —
 * "Come away,
 * Child, and play
 * Light with the gnomies;
 * In a mound,
 * Green and round,
 * That's where their home is."


 * "Honey sweet,
 * Curds to eat,
 * Cream and frumenty,
 * Shells and beads,
 * Poppy seeds,
 * You shall have plenty."