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The squirrel's granry is full.

And the harvest's done

I see a lily on they brow

With anguish moist and fever dew;

And on they cheek a fading rose

Fast withereth too.

I met a lady in the meads,

Full beautiful - afaery's child

Her hair was long, her foot was light,

And her eyes were wild

I made a garland for her head,

And bracelets too and fragrant zone

She look'd at me as she did love,

And made a sweet moan

I set her on my pacing steed,

And nothing else saw all day long,

For side ways would she lean, and sing

A faery's Song

She found me roots of relish sweet,

And honey wild, and mana dew;

And sure in language strange she said I love thee true

She took me in her elfin grot,

And there she gazed and sighed full sore,

And there I shut her wild wild eyes

With kisses four.

And there she lulled me asleep,

And there I dream'd-ah! woe betide!

The latest dream I ever dream'd

On the cold hill side.

I saw pale kings and princes too,

Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;

They cried - «la Belle Dame sans merci

Thee hath in thrall! »

I saw their starv'd lips in the gloam,

With horrid warning gaped wide,

And I awoke, and found me here,

On the cold hill side ..