Death & Dying
Tell me where is Fancy bred
From The Golden Treasury, ed. F. T. Palgrave (1861)
Death & Dying
Tell me where is Fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?
How begot, how nourishéd?
Reply, reply.
It is engender'd in the eyes,
With gazing fed; and Fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies:
Let us all ring fancy's knell;
I'll begin it,--Ding, dong, bell.
--Ding, dong, bell.
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Shakespeare, William. “Tell me where is Fancy bred.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shakespeare/186/.
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Shakespeare, William. “Tell me where is Fancy bred.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shakespeare/186/.
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