. The culprit fay . Fairy ! had she spot or taint,Bitter had been thy punishment*Tied to the hornets shardy wings;Tossed on the pricks of nettles stings;Or seven long ages doomed to dwellWith the lazy worm in the walnut-shell ;Or every night to writhe and bleedBeneath the tread of the centipede;Or bound in a cobweb dungeon dim,Your jailer a spider huge and grim,Amid the carrion bodies to lie,Of the worm, and the bug, and the murdered fly:These it had been your lot to bear,Had a stain been found on the earthly fainNow list, and mark our mild decreeFairy, this your doom must be:.

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