They say they want a penny
To spend on Saturday,
And ’less I let them have it,
They’ll not join in my play.
I can’t let them behave so,
They’ll never grow up right—
But I know they will be sorry
When I don’t kiss them good-night.
[FAIRY SIGHT]
If you want to see a fairy,
In the middle of the night,
Wrap the blanket round you,
And shut your eyes up tight.
Say “Akral dafarray!”
And open your right eye,
And (if you’ve been a good child)
A fairy flutters by!
[A FAIRY NECKLACE]
The rain had rained all morning,
And then the sun shone fair,
And all the garden glittered
With raindrops everywhere!
There were raindrops on the grasses,
And raindrops on the trees,
And how they shook and shivered,
Like diamonds, in the breeze!
And oh, I saw a fairy
Come flying right by me;
She shook a score of raindrops,
From off the hazel tree.
She slung them on a spider’s thread,
A necklace made of rain!
She clasped them round her little neck,
And off she flew again!