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1 In 1831 the following forty lines are prefixed to Fairy-Land: Sit down beside me, Isabel,

Here, dearest, where the moonbeam fell
Just now so fairy-like and well.
Now thou art dress'd for paradise!
I am star-stricken with thine eyes!
My soul is lolling on thy sighs!
Thy hair is lifted by the moon

Like flowers by the low breath of June!
Sit down, sit down - how came we here?

Or is it all but a dream, my dear?

You know that most enormous flower

That rose- - that what d'ye call it that hung

Up like a dog-star in this bower—

To-day (the wind blew, and) it swung

So impudently in my face,

So like a thing alive you know,

I tore it from its pride of place

And shook it into pieces· So
Be all ingratitude requited.
The winds ran off with it delighted,
And, thro' the opening left, as soon
As she threw off her cloak, yon moon
Has sent a ray down with a tune.

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44 Never-contented: The unbelieving (1829, B. G. M.).

9 glory that was: beauty of fair (1831, S. L. M.).

10 And: To (Graham's [1841]); that was: of old (1831, S. L.M.).

11 yon brilliant: that little (1831, S. L. M.), that shadowy (Graham's [1841]).

13 agate lamp: folded scroll (1831, S. L. M., Graham's [1841]).

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ISRAFEL

And the angel Israfel, whose heart-strings are a lute, and who has the sweetest voice of all God's creatures. - KORAN.

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Motto "And the angel Israfel who has the sweetest voice of all God's creatures. — KORAN” (1831, S. L. M.); “And the angel Israfel, or Israfeli, whose heartstrings are a lute, and who is the most musical of all God's KORAN" (Graham's). In B.J. the passage is credited to

creatures.

"Sale's Koran."

3 wildly wild — so (1831, S. L.M.).

5-7 And the giddy stars are mute (1831, S. L.M.).

13, 14 Omitted in 1831 and S. L.M.

15 Transposed in Graham's so as to follow line 12. 17 the other all the (1831, S. L.M.).

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