Here’s the poem The Gossamer Spider by Charlotte M. Yonge with an mp3 recording…
The Gossamer Spider
Creature no bigger than a pin,
Most wonderful of all that spin,
An acrobatic fairy.
Nay, what rope dancer from himself
Can draw his lines, like this small elf,
Marking his progress airy.
O’er breezy downs, from bent to bent.
That slender, viewless pathway went,
Traced in some moment’s shimmer;
But far too fine for common sight
Until the sunset’s sinking light
Makes the whole network glimmer.
Now here, now there, a rainbow gleam
Floats o’er the turf in silvery stream
Of strange mysterious lightness.
Then early autumn’s frosts will strew
Each thread with glancing beads of dew,
Jewels of flashing brightness.
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