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1792–1822

FRAGMENT: WINE OF THE FAIRIES.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I am drunk with the honey wine Of the moon-unfolded eglantine, Which fairies catch in hyacinth bowls. The bats, the dormice, and the moles

Sleep in the walls or under the sward Of the desolate castle yard; And when‘ tis spilt on the summer earth Or its fumes arise among the dew,

Their jocund dreams are full of mirth, They gibber their joy in sleep; for few Of the fairies bear those bowls so new!

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