Mopsa the Fairy

EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
BY JEAN INGELOW
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THIS IS FAIRY GOLD, BOY; AND ’TWILL PROVE SO SHAKESPEARE
MOPSA The FAIRY BY JEAN INGELOW
EVERY MAN I WILL GO WITH THEE & BE THY GVIDE
IN THY MOST NEED TO GO BY THY SIDE
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First Issue of this Edition 1912 Reprinted 1919 THE Temple Press Letchworth ENGLAND
Jean Ingelow may be said to have begun her study of the art of writing child-rhymes and the tales that are akin to them under Jane and Ann Taylor. A friendship had sprung up between the families at Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex, where the Ingelow youngsters used to stay; and “Greedy Dick” and “Mrs. Duck, the notorious glutton,” were among their favourite characters. In her first book, however, Jean Ingelow showed that she had a note and a child-fantasy of her own. They are seen in her fairy-ballad of Mimie and of the forest where the child-fairy lived:
“When the clouded sun goes in—