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The Fairies

1824-1889


UP the airy mountain,
         Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
         For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
         Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
         And white owl's feather!

Down along the rocky shore
         Some make their home,
They live on crispy pancakes
         Of yellow tide-foam;
Some in the reeds
         Of the black mountain lake,
With frogs for their watch-dogs,
         All night awake.

High on the hill-top
         The old King sits;
He is now so old and gray
         He 's nigh lost his wits.
With a bridge of white mist
         Columbkill he crosses,
On his stately journeys
         From Slieveleague to Rosses;
Or going up with music
         On cold starry nights
To sup with the Queen
         Of the gay Northern Lights.

They stole little Bridget
         For seven years long;
When she came down again
         Her friends were all gone.
They took her lightly back,
         Between the night and morrow,
They thought that she was fast asleep,
         But she was dead with sorrow.
They have kept her ever since
         Deep within the lake,
On a bed of flag-leaves,
         Watching till she wake.

By the craggy hill-side,
         Through the mosses bare,
They have planted thorn-trees
         For pleasure here and there.
If any man so daring
         As dig them up in spite,
He shall find their sharpest thorns
         In his bed at night.

Up the airy mountain,
         Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
         For fear of little men;
Wee folk, good folk,
         Trooping all together;
Green jacket, red cap,
         And white owl's feather!


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