Versos English Alice Meynell Fancy

English poem

Fancy

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Listen in the reader

TELL me where is Fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply.

It is engendered in the eyes; With gazing fed; and Fancy dies In the cradle where it lies: Let us all ring Fancy’s knell; I’ll begin it,—Ding, dong, bell. Ding, dong, bell.