Said Ann to Matilda, 'I wish that we knew <br />If what we've been reading of fairies be true. <br />Do you think that the poet himself had a sight of <br />The fairies he here does so prettily write of? <br />O what a sweet sight if he really had seen <br />The graceful Titania, the Fairy-land Queen! <br />If I had such dreams, I would sleep a whole year; <br />I would not wish to wake while a fairy was near.- <br />Now I'll fancy that I in my sleep have been seeing <br />A fine little delicate lady-like being, <br />Whose steps and whose motions so light were and airy, <br />I knew at one glance that she must be a fairy. <br />Her eyes they were blue, and her fine curling hair <br />Of the lightest of browns, her complexion more fair <br />Than I e'er saw a woman's; and then for her height, <br />I verily think that she measured not quite <br />Two feet, yet so justly proportioned withal, <br />I was almost persuaded to think she was tall. <br />Her voice was the little thin note of a sprite- <br />There-d'ye think I have made out a fairy aright? <br />You'll confess, I believe, I've not done it amiss.' <br />'Pardon me,' said Matilda, 'I find in all this <br />Fine description, you've only your young sister Mary <br />Been taking a copy of here for a fairy.'<br /><br />Charles Lamb<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-fairy-3/