the moon

   the moon most shinny brightly lighting the darkly nighting
   shimmering silvery on wavery watering of salty sea
   shipping ship full of shipmate sailors singing sea shanties
   sailing with sails so full and sail fully across the starry sea
   waves washing starry starfish onto sandy sands of the shore so surely
   mermaid with swishy fishy tail singing a song of sorrow so sorrowfully
   foggy fog over boggy bog so doggedly
   trickery troll trampling along leggedly in forest be
   fluttering fairy full of laughing flying so skywardly
   lovely lady in waiting waiting for a noble knightly laddy love to see
   dumpy dwarf with lumpy sack on humpy back triumphantly
   dancing prancing down dell so delightfully
   hobbling hob goblin is trodding and wobbling
   down high hilly path to low lilly valley to cave unseenery
   the tick tocking of the clock in the tall leafery full of a tree
   both shorter and longer hands pointed so precisely
   over his nunberly clockish face at twelvery
   tis middle night in fair fairyland so fair to see and so rare to see
   for merely mere mortals are asleep and sleeping be
   and cannot see fair fairyland except in dreams most dreamily



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