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The Golden Treasury

of the best songs and lyrical poems in the English Language

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THE FAIRY LIFE

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Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch, when owls do cry:
On the bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily, shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough!