Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Fancy: II. Fairies: Elves: Sprites | | Fairies’ Song | | Thomas Randolph (1605–1635) |
| | From the Latin by Leigh Hunt
WE the fairies blithe and antic, | |
| Of dimensions not gigantic, | |
| Though the moonshine mostly keep us, | |
| Oft in orchards frisk and peep us. | |
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| Stolen sweets are always sweeter; | 5 |
| Stolen kisses much completer; | |
| Stolen looks are nice in chapels; | |
| Stolen, stolen be your apples. | |
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| When to bed the world are bobbing, | |
| Then ’s the time for orchard-robbing; | 10 |
| Yet the fruit were scarce worth peeling | |
| Were it not for stealing, stealing. | | | | |
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