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StoryTitle("caps", "The Fairies ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(21, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up the airy mountain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Down the rushy glen, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We dare n't go a-hunting, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For fear of little men; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wee folk, good folk, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Trooping all together; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Green jacket, red cap, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And white owl's feather!", "") ?>
PagePoem(22, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down along the rocky shore, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Some make their home, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They live on crispy pancakes ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of yellow tide-foam; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some in the reeds", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of the black mountain lake, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With frogs for their watchdogs, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All night awake.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "High on the hill top ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The old King sits; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He is now so old and gray ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He 's nigh lost his wits. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a bridge of white mist ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Columbkill he crosses, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On his stately journeys", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From Slieveleague to Rosses; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or going up with music", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "On cold starry nights, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To sup with the queen", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of the gay Northern Lights. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They stole little Bridget", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For seven years long; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When she came down again ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Her friends were all gone. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They took her lightly back, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Between the night and morrow, ", "") ?>
PagePoem(23, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They thought that she was fast asleep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But she was dead with sorrow. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They have kept her ever since", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Deep within the lake, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On a bed of flag leaves, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Watching till she wake. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the craggy hillside, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Through the mosses bare, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They have planted thorn-trees ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For pleasure here and there. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is any man so daring", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As dig them up in spite,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He shall find their sharpest thorns ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In his bed at night.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up the airy mountain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Down the rushy glen, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We dare n't go a-hunting ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For fear of little men; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wee folk, good folk, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Trooping all together; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Green jacket, red cap,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And white owl's feather!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—William Allingham.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>