PART FIRST

THE LISTENING CHILD

MORNING

From CYMBELINE

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

́ARK, HARK! the lark at heaven's gate sings,
And Phoebus 'gins arise,

His steeds to water at those springs

On chaliced flowers that lies: And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes; With everything that pretty bin, My lady sweet, arise;

Arise, arise.

SONG- THE GREENWOOD TREE

From As YOU LIKE IT

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

TINDER the greenwood tree

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Who loves to lie with me,

And tune his merry note

Unto the sweet bird's throat

Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see

No enemy

But winter and rough weather.

Who doth ambition shun

And loves to live i' the sun,

Seeking the food he eats.

And pleased with what he getsCome hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see

No enemy

But winter and rough weather.

QUEEN MAB

From ROMEO AND JULIET

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

THEN, I see, Queen Mab hath been with you.
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes

In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman;
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep :
Her wagon spokes made of long spinner's legs:
The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers;
The traces, of the smallest spider's web;
The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams;
Her whip, of cricket's bone, the lash, of film;
Her wagoner, a small gray-coated gnat,
Not half so big as a round little worm,
Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid:
Her chariot is an empty hazelnut,

Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub,
Time out of mind the fairies' coachmakers.

And in this state she gallops, night by night;

Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;
On courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight;
O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees;
O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream.