"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!"
— Fairies

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

Sources

William Allingham, "The Fairies", in Poems (London: Chapman & Hall, 1850). In first American edition of Poems (Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870), p. 30.