StoryTitle("caps", "Ghost Fairies") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(29, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When the open fire is lit, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the evening after tea, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then I like to come and sit ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where the fire can talk to me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fairy stories it can tell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Tales of a forgotten race,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the fairy ghosts that dwell ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the ancient chimney place.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They are quite the strangest folk ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Anybody ever knew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shapes of shadow and of smoke ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Living in the chimney flue.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Once,\" the fire said, \"long ago, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With the wind they used to rove, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gypsy fairies, to and fro,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Camping in the field and grove.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Hither with the trees they came ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hidden in the logs; and here, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hovering above the flame,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Often some of them appear.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So I watch, and, sure enough,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I can see the fairies! Then, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Suddenly there comes a puff—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whish!—and they are gone again!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Frank Dempster Sherman. ")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>