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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. I. Early Poetry: Chaucer to Donne

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

Songs from Plays: Ariel’s Song (from The Tempest)

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.