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SONGS FOR MUSIC.

While the joyous bounding
    Of your dewy feet
Rings to that old chorus:
    "The daisy is so sweet!"*[1]

Oberon, Titania,
    Did your starlight mirth,
With the song of Avon,
    Quit this work-day earth?
Yet while green leaves glisten,
    And while bright stars burn,
By that magic memory,
    Oh, return, return!

  1. * See the chorus of Fairies in the "Flower and the Leaf" of Chaucer.