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In a fairy glade,
Where no foot hath strayed,
But the foot of elf, or fay.
One on a rosetree,
One on a thorn,
Two lover Spiders lay!
From that fairy glen,
Rude hands of men
No flower had stolen away;
But all alone,
On the rose and thorn,
Those lover spiders lay.
We woo apart:
O weave, true heart
Thy loveweb, year by year.
And some fine day
We shall meet half way;
And kiss on a cobweb, dear.
And they lay and wove
Their webs of love,
Till they met one far off day!
And she passed with him
To his rose bower dim,
And her thorntree left for aye!
And the sun shone bright
On the loveweb light,
Till it passed, like dew one morn.
But what care they?
They have met for aye,
And the rose has lost its thorn.
We woo apart:
O weave, dear heart
Thy loveweb day by day.
And the cares of life,
When we meet true wife,
Like cobwebs will melt away.
