Over hill, over dale, Through 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 coasts spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours; In those freckles live their savours; I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear.

Summary of poetry

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 drop on them. He refers those flowers as her fairy queen. Cowslips are the queen pensioners which means that the queen is giving away something in return just like an employee get a pension in return of his services to his employer at work. The poem is all about a fairy serving the fairy queen.

He said that he does everything that fairies do. She explained that she wanders various places like briers, fires, dales, parks, and floods quickly to serve Titania(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.

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