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Be for them this fountain dry.

Should an envious face peer in,

Reflect, we pray, with all its sin.

The horror of an envious mind

Of all sad sights, the worst we find

And what grieves most the fairies mild,

The manners of an envious child.”

As the song ceased, the gnomes paused in

    

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their work, and all gazed toward the meadow
that lay below, and through which a stream