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She cried " Laura ," up the garden,
"Did you miss me ?
Come and kiss me.
Never mind my bruises,
Hug me , kiss me , suck my juices
Squeezed from goblin fruits for you,
Goblin pulp and goblin dew.
Eat me , drink me , love me ;
Laura , make much of me :
For your sake I have braved the glen
And had to do with goblin merchant men."

by Christina Rossetti.

And outten spoke the Queen of Elfenland
From the bush wherein she stood
" I should have tore out your eyes Tam Lin
And put in two eyes of wood , of wood
Put in two eyes of wood."

from Tam Lin (trad.)

The gardener standing by , three offers he made to me
The pink , the violet and red rose , which I refused all three
Which I refused all three.

from When I Was In My Prime (trad.)

So I went on and on till I came to the secret wood which must not be described , and I went into it by the way I had found.

By Arthur Machen

" And , as he kissed her , he felt her soft fingers tweak his ears . "

By Algernon Blackwood

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