THE FAIRY TEMPTER
A fair girl was sitting in the greenwood shade,List’ning to the music the spring birds made;When sweeter by far than the birds on the tree,A voice murmured near her, “Oh! come, Love, with me—In earth or air,A thing so fairI have not seen as thee!Then come, Love, with me.”“With a star for thy home, in a palace of light,Thou will add a fresh grace to the beauty of night;Or, if wealth be thy wish, thine are treasures untold,I will show thee the birthplace of jewels and gold gold—And pearly cavesBeneath the waves,All these, all these are thine,If thou will be mine.”Thus whispered a Fairy to tempt the fair girl,But vain was his promise of gold and of pearl;For she said, “Tho’ thy gifts to a poor girl were dear,My father, my mother, my sisters are here:Oh! what would beThy gifts to meOf earth, and sea, and air,If my heart were not there?”
A fair girl was sitting in the greenwood shade,List’ning to the music the spring birds made;When sweeter by far than the birds on the tree,A voice murmured near her, “Oh! come, Love, with me—In earth or air,A thing so fairI have not seen as thee!Then come, Love, with me.”“With a star for thy home, in a palace of light,Thou will add a fresh grace to the beauty of night;Or, if wealth be thy wish, thine are treasures untold,I will show thee the birthplace of jewels and gold gold—And pearly cavesBeneath the waves,All these, all these are thine,If thou will be mine.”Thus whispered a Fairy to tempt the fair girl,But vain was his promise of gold and of pearl;For she said, “Tho’ thy gifts to a poor girl were dear,My father, my mother, my sisters are here:Oh! what would beThy gifts to meOf earth, and sea, and air,If my heart were not there?”
A fair girl was sitting in the greenwood shade,List’ning to the music the spring birds made;When sweeter by far than the birds on the tree,A voice murmured near her, “Oh! come, Love, with me—In earth or air,A thing so fairI have not seen as thee!Then come, Love, with me.”
A fair girl was sitting in the greenwood shade,
List’ning to the music the spring birds made;
When sweeter by far than the birds on the tree,
A voice murmured near her, “Oh! come, Love, with me—
In earth or air,
A thing so fair
I have not seen as thee!
Then come, Love, with me.”
“With a star for thy home, in a palace of light,Thou will add a fresh grace to the beauty of night;Or, if wealth be thy wish, thine are treasures untold,I will show thee the birthplace of jewels and gold gold—And pearly cavesBeneath the waves,All these, all these are thine,If thou will be mine.”
“With a star for thy home, in a palace of light,
Thou will add a fresh grace to the beauty of night;
Or, if wealth be thy wish, thine are treasures untold,
I will show thee the birthplace of jewels and gold gold—
And pearly caves
Beneath the waves,
All these, all these are thine,
If thou will be mine.”
Thus whispered a Fairy to tempt the fair girl,But vain was his promise of gold and of pearl;For she said, “Tho’ thy gifts to a poor girl were dear,My father, my mother, my sisters are here:Oh! what would beThy gifts to meOf earth, and sea, and air,If my heart were not there?”
Thus whispered a Fairy to tempt the fair girl,
But vain was his promise of gold and of pearl;
For she said, “Tho’ thy gifts to a poor girl were dear,
My father, my mother, my sisters are here:
Oh! what would be
Thy gifts to me
Of earth, and sea, and air,
If my heart were not there?”
Samuel Lover