Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.
John Milton
Hope
Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.
John Milton
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 781.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.