Excerpt from An Entirely Original Fairy Opera, in Two Acts, Entitled Iolanthe, or the Peer and the Peri

We are dainty little fairies, Ever singing, ever dancing, We indulge in our vagaries In a fashion most entrancing. If you ask the special function Of our never-ceasing motion, We reply, Without compunction, That we haven't any notion!

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