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 And bells for dreams, and fairy wine and food All day thy heart in happiness to keep"; — And now she takes the scissors on her thumb, — "O, then, no more unto my lattice come!"

Sad is the sound of weeping in the wood! Now only night is where the Pedlar was; And bleak as frost upon a quickling bud His magic steals in darkness, alas! Why all the summer doth sweet Lettice pine? And, ere the wheat is ripe, why lies her gold Hid 'neath fresh new-plucked sprigs of eglantine? Why all the morning hath the cuckoo tolled, Sad, to and fro, in green and secret ways, With solemn bells the burden of his days?

And, in the market-place, what man is this Who wears a loop of gold upon his breast, Stuck heartwise; and whose glassy flatteries Take all the townsfolk ere they go to rest Who come to buy and gossip? Doth his eye Remember a face lovely in a wood? O people! hasten, hasten, do not buy His woeful wares; the bird of grief doth brood There where his heart should be; and far away There mourns long sorrowfulness this happy day.