Who Lights The Fire?
Who lights the fire--that forth so gracefully And freely frolicketh the fairy smoke? Some pretty one who never felt the yoke-- Glad girl, or maiden more sedate than she. Pedant it cannot, villain cannot be! Some genius, may-be, his own symbol woke; But puritan, nor rogue in virtue's cloke, Nor kitchen-maid has done it certainly! Ha, ha! you cannot find the lighter out For all the blue smoke's pantomimic gesture-- His name or nature, sex or age or vesture! The fire was lit by human care, no doubt-- But now the smoke is Nature's tributary, Dancing 'twixt man and nothing like a fairy.
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