Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes. Volume II.

Produced by Ted Garvin and PG Distributed Proofreaders
1901-1918
1920



As I lay awake in the white moonlight, I heard a faint singing in the wood, Out of bed, Sleepyhead, Put your white foot, now; Here are we Beneath the tree Singing round the root now.
I looked out of window, in the white moonlight, The leaves were like snow in the wood— Come away, Child, and play Light with the gnomies; In a mound, Green and round, That's where their home is.
Honey sweet, Curds to eat, Cream and frumenty, Shells and beads, Poppy seeds, You shall have plenty.
But, as soon as I stooped in the dim moonlight To put on my stocking and my shoe, The sweet shrill singing echoed faintly away, And the grey of the morning peeped through, And instead of the gnomies there came a red robin To sing of the buttercups and dew.
Where the bluebells and the wind are, Fairies in a ring I spied, And I heard a little linnet Singing near beside.
Where the primrose and the dew are— Soon were sped the fairies all: Only now the green turf freshens, And the linnets call.