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THE FAIRY-PEDLAR'S SONG by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

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First Line: OF YOUR 'NEVOLENT NATURE
Last Line: AND THE TAPER BURNS DULL!

Of your 'nevolent nature
Spare a crust for a creature.
A drink and a dole,
For a ho-omeless soul.

Of slumber but tossings --
White the rime in bare Crossings;
Cold is shed, barn and byre, leddy,
A coal from your fire, leddy!

And Oh, sleepy odours,
The bosom to lull;
When the swart raven yells,
And the taper burns dull!



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