<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355232" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fairy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said Ann to Matilda, 'I wish that we knew<br>If what we've been reading of fairies be true.<br>Do you think that the poet himself had a sight of<br>The fairies he here does so prettily write of?<br>O what a sweet sight if he really had seen<br>The graceful Titania, the Fairy-land Queen!<br>If I had such dreams, I would sleep a whole year;<br>I would not wish to wake while a fairy was near.-<br>Now I'll fancy that I in my sleep have been seeing<br>A fine little delicate lady-like being,<br>Whose steps and whose motions so light were and airy,<br>I knew at one glance that she must be a fairy.<br>Her eyes they were blue, and her fine curling hair<br>Of the lightest of browns, her complexion more fair<br>Than I e'er saw a woman's; and then for her height,<br>I verily think that she measured not quite<br>Two feet, yet so justly proportioned withal,<br>I was almost persuaded to think she was tall.<br>Her voice was the little thin note of a sprite-<br>There-d'ye think I have made out a fairy aright?<br>You'll confess, I believe, I've not done it amiss.'<br>'Pardon me,' said Matilda, 'I find in all this<br>Fine description, you've only your young sister Mary<br>Been taking a copy of here for a fairy.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Lamb">Charles Lamb</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355232" data-title="The Fairy de Charles Lamb" data-description="Said Ann to Matilda, 'I wish that we knew If what we've been reading of fairies be true. Do you think that the poet himself had a sight of The fairies he here does so prettily write of? O what a sweet sight if he really had seen The graceful Titan..."></div> </div> </div>

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