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THE FAIRY THORN

"Get up, our Anna dear, from the weary spinning wheel;

For your father's on the hill, and your mother is asleep:

Come up above the crags, and we'll dance a highland reel

Around the fairy thorn on the steep."

At Anna Grace's door 'twas thus the maidens cried,

Three merry maidens fair in kirtles of the green;

And Anna laid the rock[74] and the weary wheel aside,

The fairest of the four, I ween.