Etchings in Verse (Underhill)/If You Were the Spider
IF YOU WERE THE SPIDER.
IF you were the spider, and I were the fly,As close as I dared to your web I'd come nigh.I'd circle around at the dawning of light,And steal to the edge of your palace at night;I'd watch by the planets to find you asleep,Then close to your side all a-tremble I'd creep.I'd drop you sweet billets-doux tinted with shadesThat flash thro' the tree-tops adown leafy glades.I'd send you rare bon-bons of honey glacé;And when I had wooed you for many a day,I'd haste to your web there contented to die—If you were the spider and I were the fly.