One passionate note of victory:

Off, like a fool afraid, I sneaked,

Smiling the smile the fool smiles best,

At the mother bird in the secret hedge

Patient upon her lonely nest.

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THE CHILD IN THE STORY GOES TO BED

I prythee, Nurse, come smooth my hair,

And prythee, Nurse, unloose my shoe,

And trimly turn my silken sheet