Versos English Joseph Rodman Drake Tennant's Anster Fair, XII

English poem

Tennant's Anster Fair, XII

by (1795–1820)

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The elfin cast a glance around, As he lighted down from his courser toad, Then round his breast his wings he wound, And close to the river's brink he strode; He sprang on a rock, he breathed a prayer, Above his head his arms he threw, Then tossed a tiny curve in air, And headlong plunged in the waters blue.