A Fairy Song

William Shakespeare

By William Shakespeare


Over hill, over dale

Thorough bush, thorough brier

Over park, over pale

Thorough flood, thorough fire !

I do wander everywhere

Switfer than the moon’s sphere

And I serve the fairy queen

To dew her orbs upon the green

The crowslips tall her pensioners be

In their gold coats spots you see

Those the rubies, fairy favours

In those freckles live their savours

I must go seek some dewdrops here

And hang a pearl in every crowslip’s ear

In this poem, Shakespeare tells about a fairy, perhaps a fairy that have relation with him on his life. Especially a Fairy ‘chant’. This poem is not specific, which means Shakespeare just convey some activities ‘Over hill and dale’ about a Fairies. William Shakespeare did not intend to consider the words have ‘Anthologised’ under the name ‘A Fairy Song’ separately from the play A Midsummer Night Dream (One of Shakespeare’s comedy created or a comedy play believed to have been written 1590 and 1596). This chant pronounced by a Fairy into Robin Goodfellow (A Mythology of English folklore, puck is a mischievous nature sprite, demon or fairy. And in folklore also knows as Robin Goodfellow) otherwise known as puck by way of an introduction. Which be suppression in this poem ‘And I serve the fairy queen’ which means that she (It is usually a she, but could be a he) is one of titanian’s servants (Queen of fairies and oberon’s lover) and she further says that the queen and her fairies are coming to this spot. All the rest of it is about how she wanders about doing for titania like hanging dewdrops in flowers and other silly stuff.