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To A Little Maid By A Policeman

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Come with me, little maid,     Nay, shrink not, thus afraid     I'll harm thee not!     Fly not, my love, from me     I have a home for thee     A fairy grot,     Where mortal eye     Can rarely pry,     There shall thy dwelling be!     List to me, while I tell     The pleasures of that cell,     Oh, little maid!     What though its couch be rude,     Homely the only food     Within its shade?     No thought of care     Can enter there,     No vulgar swain intrude!     Come with me, little maid,     Come to the rocky shade     I love to sing;     Live with us, maiden rare     Come, for we "want" thee there,     Thou elfin thing,     To work thy spell,     In some cool cell     In stately Pentonville!

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