If you see a fairy ring
In a field of grass,
Very lightly step around,
Tip-Toe as you pass,
Last night Fairies frolicked there
And they're sleeping somewhere near.
If you see a tiny fairy
Lying fast asleep
Shut your eyes
And run away,
Do not stay to peek!
Do not tell
Or you'll break a fairy spell.
...Author Unknown
The Fairies
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!
William Allingham, (1824-1889)
Do you believe in Fairies?
Say quick that you believe.
If you believe clap your hands!
Sir James M. Barrie
In Fairyland
The fairy poet takes a sheet
Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet,
His pen a point of light.
My love I know is fairer far
Than his, (though she is fair,)
And we should dwell where fairies are,
For I could praiser her there.
Joyce Kilmer
The Elven Dance
by Amanda Baggs
O you who dance among the trees
With endless grace and tireless ease,
Would it disrupt your song to speak
Of who you are and what you seek?
We circle through the forest green
In patterns left to you unseen,
And when the sunrise lights the sky
To other places we must fly.
O you who fly into the night
With eyes that shine like stars and light,
Please tell me now where do you run
When you depart from day and sun?
With light that you will never see
We travel over rock and tree.
Yet in the blazing glare of dawn
Our own devices must be gone.
O you who flee from sun and day
With strange enigmas you must play,
To be se wary not to tell
Of who you are and where you dwell
We beg you not to leave our sight
And ride to long-forgotten light
Your presence cannot be so wrong
We bid you stay and hear our song
'Twas I that led you
through the painted mead.
Where the light fairies
danced upon the flowers
Hanging from every
leaf an orient pearl.
- The Wisdom of Dr. Dodypoll, 1660
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