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    Lester Smith works days as a writer & technologist for Sebranek Inc., an educational publisher in Wisconsin. In his spare time, he designs games, writes poetry & fiction, codes Web stuff, publishes other writers via Popcorn Press, & dreams of being the first Android Poet Laureate of Mars.

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    Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard

    By Lester | May 25, 2010

    by Leigh Hunt

    We, the Fairies, blithe and antic,
    Of dimensions not gigantic,
    Though the moonshine mostly keep us,
    Oft in orchards frisk and peep us.

    Stolen sweets are always sweeter,
    Stolen kisses much completer,
    Stolen looks are nice in chapels,
    Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

    When to bed the world are bobbing,
    Then’s the time for orchard-robbing;
    Yet the fruit were scarce worth peeling,
    Were it not for stealing, stealing.

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    1. Lester Says:
      May 25th, 2010 at 2:55 pm

      I’ve had a fondness for Leigh Hunt ever since discovering “Jenny Kiss’d Me” 30+ years ago. Though he’s not as well known as his contemporaries Keats and Shelley (who were also his friends), there’s something irrepressible about verses like these. Also, I suppose I connect with his biography of an artist struggling to survive financially. It’s Poe’s story, Coleridge’s, Dostoevsky’s, and so many others. That Hunt was supporting a large family makes me feel the connection only that much more.

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