A -FAIRY' STORY. 



" I joyed lo hear her own peculiar note 



Through all the music float ; 

 But when the gentle song, that streamed away, 

 Like some enamoured rivulet that flows 

 Under a night of leaves and flowering may, 

 Died on the stress of its own lovely pain, 



Even as it died away, 

 It seemed as if no influence could restrain 

 The notes from welling in the whitethroat's brain." 



EDMUND GOSSE. 



