THE BAT

AIRY-MOUSE, hairy mouse,

Keen-eared contrary mouse,

Come from your cavern a star s in the sky!

Fluttering, flittering,

Eerily chittering,

Swoop on your quarry, the dusk-haunting fly.

Airy-mouse, wary mouse,

Witch-bird or fairy-mouse,

Soft through the shadow the dawn-glimmer steals;

Night s your carousing-time,

Day brings your drowsing-time;

Hence to your hollow and hang by your heels!

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