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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

Ariel’s Song

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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WHERE the bee sucks, there suck I:

In a cowslip’s bell I lie;

There I couch when owls do cry.

On the bat’s back I do fly

After summer, merrily.

Merrily, merrily, shall I live now,

Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.