<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538570" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fairy Sketch</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">SCENE--NETLEY ABBEY.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was a morrice on the moonlight plain,<br>And music echoed in the woody glade,<br>For fay-like forms, as of Titania's train,<br>Upon a summer eve, beneath the shade<br>Of Netley's ivied ruins, to the sound<br>Of sprightly minstrelsy did beat the ground:--<br>Come, take hands! and lightly move,<br>While our boat, in yonder cove,<br>Rests upon the darkening sea;<br>Come, take hands, and follow me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Netley! thy dim and desolated fane<br>Hath heard, perhaps, the spirits of the night<br>Shrieking, at times, amid the wind and rain;<br>Or haply, when the full-orbed moon shone bright,<br>Thy glimmering aisles have echoed to the song<br>Of fairy Mab, who led her shadowy masque along.<br>Now, as to the sprightly sound<br>Of moonlight minstrelsy we beat the ground;<br>From the pale nooks, in accent clear,<br>Now, methinks, her voice I hear,<br>Sounding o'er the darksome sea;<br>Come, take hands, and follow me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here, beneath the solemn wood,<br>When faintly-blue is all the sky,<br>And the moon is still on high,<br>To the murmurs of the flood,<br>To the glimpses of the night,<br>We perform our airy rite;--<br>Care and pain to us unknown,<br>To the darkening seas are flown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hear no more life's fretful noise,<br>Heed not here pale Envy's sting,<br>Far from life's distempered joys;<br>To the waters murmuring,<br>To the shadows of the sky,<br>To the moon that rides on high,<br>To the glimpses of the night,<br>We perform our airy rite,<br>While care and pain, to us unknown,<br>To the darkening seas are flown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Lisle+Bowles">William Lisle Bowles</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=538570" data-title="Fairy Sketch de William Lisle Bowles" data-description="SCENE--NETLEY ABBEY. There was a morrice on the moonlight plain, And music echoed in the woody glade, For fay-like forms, as of Titania's train, Upon a summer eve, beneath the shade Of Netley's ivied ruins, to the sound Of sprightly minstrelsy di..."></div> </div> </div>

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