Lethargic and drunk, the strange old man<\/p>\n
with bottle in hand, meandered across the field.<\/p>\n
Staring ahead as best he could, held onto his hat<\/p>\n
With vision zooming this way and that.<\/p>\n
There stood a cottage at the edge of the treeline,<\/p>\n
“Shelter from this scorching heat, and just in time.”<\/p>\n
The man guzzled down what remained of his Rye,<\/p>\n
Delirious and deranged, strange lights did he spy.<\/p>\n
On further inspection he claimed them to be<\/p>\n
“Ten tiny fairies, belonging to me.”<\/p>\n
Swiftly he trapped them in that not-quite-empty bottle<\/p>\n
He demanded they dance or threatened to throttle<\/p>\n
They flew, and they flew, growing rapidly dimmer<\/p>\n
In all that heat they simply did simmer<\/p>\n
Till all of a sudden, his ‘fairies’ were drunk<\/p>\n
Poor little fireflies, to the bottom they sunk.<\/p>\n
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