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Cruel Anna.
Little Anna, cruel elf,
Spite of all my reason,
She yet puts me from myself
In and out of season;
Ah, the may, ah, the fay,
Glee to mischief wedded!
Foe to rest, she's a pest,
And always to be dreaded!
Spite of all my reason,
She yet puts me from myself
In and out of season;
Ah, the may, ah, the fay,
Glee to mischief wedded!
Foe to rest, she's a pest,
And always to be dreaded!
Never goes the sun around,
But upon me stealing,
She, she doth my soul confound,
Sends my reason reeling;
Gars me sing, and while, alack,
I in glee am singing,
On me turns and in a crack,
Gives my ear a-wringing.
But upon me stealing,
She, she doth my soul confound,
Sends my reason reeling;
Gars me sing, and while, alack,
I in glee am singing,
On me turns and in a crack,
Gives my ear a-wringing.
Pat she comes and goes, the wasp!
Back anon she hummeth;
Round my neck her hands to clasp,
That to do she cometh;
So she leads me to suppose
By her air entrancing,
Till I'm twitted by the nose
And again sent dancing.
Back anon she hummeth;
Round my neck her hands to clasp,
That to do she cometh;
So she leads me to suppose
By her air entrancing,
Till I'm twitted by the nose
And again sent dancing.
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Ear or nose, or wrung or stung,
'Tween a thumb and finger,
How to be avenged now long
Lost in doubt I linger;
Then when I resolved at last
Rush her pride to humble;
Lo, o'er me a glamour cast,
O'er the stools I tumble.
'Tween a thumb and finger,
How to be avenged now long
Lost in doubt I linger;
Then when I resolved at last
Rush her pride to humble;
Lo, o'er me a glamour cast,
O'er the stools I tumble.
Head a-turned, heart a-burned,
Nay, reduced to cinders;
Nose a-stung, ears a-wrung,
Shins all sent to flinders;
Pale and thin, bone and skin—
I'm a spectre merely;
And he who'd play my part might say
He'd bought his whistle dearly.
Nay, reduced to cinders;
Nose a-stung, ears a-wrung,
Shins all sent to flinders;
Pale and thin, bone and skin—
I'm a spectre merely;
And he who'd play my part might say
He'd bought his whistle dearly.
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