Fairy's slumber song

In lily cup I'll nest me,

From fairy dance to rest me,

For the silver moon

Dips low, and soon

Would the goblins swart molest me.

But never a gnome will mock me,

Nor peering toad-face shock me,

While the wind-elf blithe

Stands on tiptoe lithe

By the lily s stem to rock me;

And the star-sprites lean above me,

For all the star-sprites love me;

In circle fair

Each holds in air

His small gold torch above me.

Come, soft-winged Sleep, and kiss me,

For the dream-land fairies miss me,

Till thy sweet, cool lips

SYSTEMPart the folded tips

Of my lily-couch to kiss me.

But when thy spells unbind me

The sunbeams shall not find me,

And my dreamy nest

Be only guessed

By the fragrance left behind me.