A Fairy Song by William Shakespeare

Over hill, over dale,

Thorough bush, thorough brier,

Over park, over pale,

Thorough flood, thorough fire!

I do wander everywhere,

Swifter than the moon’s sphere;

And I serve the Fairy Queen,

To dew her orbs upon the green;

The cowslips tall her pensioners be;

In their gold coats spots you see;

Those be rubies, fairy favor’s;

In those freckles live their savors;

I must go seek some dewdrops here,

And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear.

Summery:

In this poem there is a fairy that keeps going around & spreading dew drop on every flower he comes.The flowers are known as cowslips and she is spreading dew drops on them. He refers those flowers as her Fairy queen. Cowslips are the queen pensioners which mean that the queen is giving away something in return just like an employee gets a pension in return of his services to his employer at work. He said that he does everything what faeries do. She explained that she wanders various places like briers, fires, dales, parks and floods quickly to serve the queen of fairy by dropping dew drops over the bushes and grass. He does because they are fairy favors and she tries making them smell good. The poem is all about a fairy serving the fairy queen.