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XXXIX

“Hark! ’tis an elfin storm from faery land,

Of haggard seeming, but a boon indeed:

Arise⁠—arise! the morning is at hand:⁠—

The bloated wassailers will never heed:⁠—

Let us away, my love, with happy speed;

There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see,⁠—

Drown’d all in Rhenish and the sleepy mead:

Awake! arise! my love, and fearless be,

For o’er the southern moors I have a home for thee.”