<h2><SPAN name="page24"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>TO A LITTLE MAID<br/> <span class="GutSmall">BY A POLICEMAN</span></h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Come</span> with me, little
maid,<br/>
Nay, shrink not, thus afraid—<br/>
I’ll harm thee not!<br/>
Fly not, my love, from me—<br/>
I have a home for thee—<br/>
A fairy grot,<br/>
Where mortal
eye<br/>
Can rarely
pry,<br/>
There shall thy dwelling be!</p>
<p class="poetry">List to me, while I tell<br/>
The pleasures of that cell,<br/>
Oh, little maid!<br/>
What though its couch be rude,<br/>
Homely the only food<br/>
Within its shade?<br/>
No thought of
care<br/>
Can enter
there,<br/>
No vulgar swain intrude!</p>
<p class="poetry">Come with me, little maid,<br/>
Come to the rocky shade<br/>
I love to sing;<br/>
Live with us, maiden rare—<br/>
Come, for we “want” thee there,<br/>
Thou elfin thing,<br/>
To work thy
spell,<br/>
In some cool
cell<br/>
In stately Pentonville!</p>
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