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 From when she gamboll'd on the greens, A baby-germ, to when The maiden blossoms of her teens Could number five from ten.

I swear, by leaf, and wind, and rain, (And hear me with thine ears,) That, tho' I circle in the grain Five hundred rings of years—

Yet, since I first could cast a shade, Did never creature pass So slightly, musically made, So light upon the grass:

For as to fairies, that will flit To make the greensward fresh, I hold them exquisitely knit, But far too spare of flesh."