...convert To either large or small ; An old nut-shell 's the same to us As is the lofty hall. XXXV ' We sleep in rose-buds, soft and sweet, We revel in...wanton lightly on the wind, Or glide on a sunbeam. 1 [Stanzas xxxii.-xxxvi., wholly modern and quite unauthentic, are those of the gentleman residing...

...a coat of modern varnish to this old ballad ? What say you to this, for example ? — "We sleep on rosebuds soft and sweet, We revel in the stream, We...wanton lightly on the wind, Or glide on a sunbeam." This seems quite modern, yet I have retained it ('Abbotsford Notanda,' in Carruthern's ed. of CHAMBER'S...

...into the ballad requires some better justification than that they were connected with Ettrick Forest.] And all our wants are well supplied, From every rich man's store, Who thankless sing the gifts he gets, etc. — St. xxxvi. To sin our gifts, or mercies, means, ungratefully to hold...

...we can convert, To either large or small; An old nut-shell's the same to us, As is the lofty hall. We sleep in rose-buds, soft and sweet, We revel in the stream; 218 We wanton lightly on the wind, Or glide on a sunbeam. And all our wants are well supplied, From...

...to prove that this poem has been at least tampered with. For example, the account of fairy life : 4 And all our wants are well supplied From every rich...store, Who thankless sins the gifts he gets, And vainly grasp« for more.' Without regard, however, to such manifest patches, the general structure and style...

...old nutshell's the same to us As in a lofty hall. We sleep in rosebuds soft and sweet, We revel iu the stream, We wanton lightly on the wind, Or glide on a sunbeam." It seems, however, that this life, with all its charms, has one drawback. The fairies, for some reasons,...