Once Upon a Time, and Other Child-Verses

by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

And he spake up merry and bold:

"Hey, Father, we've been in the fairy land,

Where the horses are shod wi' gold!"

V.

"An' what did ye there in Fairyland,

O my two fair sons, I pray?"

"We shod for them, Father, their fairy steeds,

All in a month an' a day.

VI.

"An', Father, we shod them wi' virgin gold;