<meta content="urn:uuid:fb05077e-9eb0-4d84-816a-a0dbb176445c" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <p class="p11"><a id="a710"/><a id="a711"/><span class="t12">A FAIRY SKIPD UPON MY KNEE</span></p> <p class="p18">A fairy skipd upon my knee t<br/>Singing & dancing merrily<br/>I said Thou thing of patches rings<br/>Pins Necklaces & such like things<br/>Disguiser of the Female Form<span class="t5"> 5<br/></span>Thou paltry gilded poisnous worm<br/>Weeping he fell upon my thigh<br/>And thus in tears did soft reply<br/>Knowest thou not O Fairies Lord<br/>How much by us Contemnd Abhorrd<span class="t5"> 10<br/></span>Whatever hides the Female form<br/>That cannot bear the Mental storm<br/>Therefore in Pity still we give<br/>Our lives to make the Female live<br/>And what would turn into disease<span class="t5"> 15<br/></span>We turn to what will joy & please t<br/>[With Blake’s Illustrations to Gray’s <span class="t6">Poems</span> ]<br/> </p> </body> </html>