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Who Lights The Fire?

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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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