THE FAIRIES’ PASSAGE
I
Tap, tap, tap, rap! “Get up, Gaffer Ferryman.”
“Eh! who is there?” The clock strikes three.
“Get up, do, Gaffer! You are the very man
We have been long—long—longing to see.”
The Ferryman rises, growling and grumbling,
And goes fum-fumbling, and stumbling, and tumbling,