Who Lights the Fire? + 

Who lights the fire⁠—that forth so gracefully + 

And freely frolicketh the fairy smoke? + 

Some pretty one who never felt the yoke⁠— + 

Glad girl, or maiden more sedate than she. + 

Pedant it cannot, villain cannot be! + 

Some genius, may-be, his own symbol woke; + 

But puritan, nor rogue in virtue’s cloke, + 

Nor kitchen-maid has done it certainly! + 

Ha, ha! you cannot find the lighter out + 

For all the blue smoke’s pantomimic gesture⁠— + 

His name or nature, sex or age or vesture! + 

The fire was lit by human care, no doubt⁠— + 

But now the smoke is Nature’s tributary, + 

Dancing ’twixt man and nothing like a fairy. + 