Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard
Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard
Original Text
Tatler: A daily journal of literature and the stage (London: J. Onwhyn, 8 Sept. 1830). AP T385 MICR mfm Robarts Library
2Of dimensions not gigantic,
3Though the moonshine mostly keep us,
4Oft in orchards frisk and peep us.
5Stolen sweets are always sweeter,
6Stolen kisses much completer,
7Stolen looks are nice in chapels,
8Stolen, stolen, be your apples.
9When to bed the world are bobbing,
10Then's the time for orchard-robbing;
11Yet the fruit were scarce worth peeling,
12Were it not for stealing, stealing.
Notes
1] Four more stanzas were added later. The stanzas here printed are a free translation of some Latin verses in the drama of Amyntas, or the Impossible Dowry, by Thomas Randolph. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1838
RPO poem Editors
J. D. Robins
RPO Edition
2RP.2.155; RPO 1996-2000.
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