Come with me, little maid, <br />Nay, shrink not, thus afraid - <br />I'll harm thee not! <br />Fly not, my love, from me - <br />I have a home for thee - <br />A fairy grot, <br />Where mortal eye <br />Can rarely pry, <br />There shall thy dwelling be! <br /> <br />List to me, while I tell <br />The pleasures of that cell, <br />Oh, little maid! <br />What though its couch be rude, <br />Homely the only food <br />Within its shade? <br />No thought of care <br />Can enter there, <br />No vulgar swain intrude! <br /> <br />Come with me, little maid, <br />Come to the rocky shade <br />I love to sing; <br />Live with us, maiden rare - <br />Come, for we "want" thee there, <br />Thou elfin thing, <br />To work thy spell, <br />In some cool cell <br />In stately Pentonville!<br /><br />William Schwenck Gilbert<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-a-little-maid-by-a-politician/
