Poems on Several Occasions :: :: University of Virginia Library

A SIMILIE,

UPON A Set of Tea-Drinkers.

So Fairy Elves their morning-table spread
O'er a white mushroom's hospitable head:
In acorn cups the merry goblins quaff
The pearly dews, they sing, they love, they laugh;
Melodious music trembles thro' the sky,
And airy sounds along the green-wood die.