. The culprit fay . But, Oh ! how fair the shape that lay Beneath a rainbow bending bright;She seemed to the entranced Fay The loveliest of the forms of light;Her mantle was the purple rolled At twilight in the west afar;T was tied with threads of dawninggold, And buttoned with a sparkling face was like the lily roon That veils the vestal planets hue;Her eyes, two beamlets from the moon, Set floating in the welkin blue*Her hair is like the sunny beam,And the diamond gems which round it gleamAre the pure drops of dewy evenThat neer have left their nativeheaven*. She raised her eyes to

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. The culprit fay . But, Oh ! how fair the shape that lay Beneath a rainbow bending bright;She seemed to the entranced Fay The loveliest of the forms of light;Her mantle was the purple rolled At twilight in the west afar;T was tied with threads of dawninggold, And buttoned with a sparkling face was like the lily roon That veils the vestal planets hue;Her eyes, two beamlets from the moon, Set floating in the welkin blue*Her hair is like the sunny beam,And the diamond gems which round it gleamAre the pure drops of dewy evenThat neer have left their nativeheaven*. She raised her eyes to the they leaped with smiles, forwell I weenNever before in the bowers of lightHad the form of an earthly Fay beenseen*Long she looked in his tiny face;Long with his butterfly cloak sheplayed;

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