StoryTitle("caps", "The Fairies' Shopping ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(68, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where do you think the Fairies go ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To buy their blankets ere the snow?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Autumn comes, with frosty days, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sorry, shivering little Fays", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Begin to think it's time to creep ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down to their caves for Winter sleep. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But first they come from far and near ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To buy, where shops are not too dear. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(The wind and frost bring prices down ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So Fall 's their time to come to town!) ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where on the hillside rough and steep ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Browse all day long the cows and sheep, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mullein's yellow candles burn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Over the heads of dry sweet fern", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All summer long the mullein weaves ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His soft and thick and woolly leaves. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Warmer blankets were never seen ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than these broad leaves of fuzzy green. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "(The cost of each is but a shekel", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Made from the gold of honeysuckle!) ", "") ?>
PagePoem(69, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To buy their sheets and fine white lace ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With which to trim a pillow case, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They only have to go next door,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where stands a sleek brown spider's store, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And there they find the misty threads ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ready to cut into sheet and spreads; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then, for a pillow, pluck with care", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some soft-winged seeds as light as air; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Just what they want the thistle brings, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But thistles are such surly things—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And so, though it is somewhat high, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The clematis the Fairies buy.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The only bedsteads that they need ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Are silky pods of ripe milk-weed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With hangings of the dearest things—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Autumn leaves, or butterflies' wings ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And dandelions' fuzzy heads", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They use to stuff their feather beds; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yellow snapdragons supply ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The nightcaps that the Fairies buy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To which some blades of grass they pin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And tie them 'neath each little chin. ", "") ?>
PagePoem(70, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then, shopping done, the Fairies cry,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Our Summer's gone! Oh, sweet, good-by!\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sadly to their caves they go,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To hide away from Winter's snow—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And then, though winds and storms may beat, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Fairies' sleep is warm and sweet!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Margaret Deland.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>